How do I boot the Debian 10 image with qemu/kvm?
BMitch asked: I’m attempting to boot the openstack image of Debian 10 using qemu and encountering an error detecting the harddrive, the end of the boot up sequence is showing: …
What type of media contains the installation image
UnicsSol asked: I have installed RHEV in one HP G9 blade. Now I want to create a guest VM with Linux. In order to proceed I have copied the image …
Difficulty in assigning resources to KVM virtual machines leading to extremely sluggish performance on VM
cuxcrider asked: Physical Server Setup: OS: Ubuntu 16.04 RAM: 384GB CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz with 2 sockets, 8 cores per socket, and 2 threads per core, …
Cant find much documentation regarding over committing of memory for VM's on a KVM host
Anees Patel asked: Most operating systems do not use 100% of the available RAM all the time, having said that I am unable to find an approximation for this over …
KVM virtio disk drivers for Windows SVR 2016?
Server Fault asked: I’m trying to setup a Windows 2016 server under KVM (Virt-Manager) on Debian 9 using the WinSvr_STD_CORE_2016_64Bit_-4_DC_STD_X21-70526 flavored ISO. In the past, virtio drivers from Fedora would …
Migrate an ESXi VM with two drives
Jim Archer asked: I have some very old Debian VMs that were migrated from physical to VMWare, and now I need to get them off VMWare and into a service …
Centos 7, Qemu virtualization: Win10 guest VM very slow after Windows Update
Enovator asked: We use qemu virtualization for many years now! It’s a great tool! We use it both for Linux VM’s and Windows VM’s! It’s the first time we have …
Afer upgrading qemu, "unsupported machine type 'pc-i440fx-3.1"
Thoughtcraft asked: I recently installed the latest version (3.1.0) of QEMU, and I have been having trouble getting virt-manager to work correctly, presumably because it isn’t connected to the right …
What do the IDs of PCI devices refer to and which ones are relevent for setting up passthrough?
Thoughtcraft asked: In setting up a domain with virsh, I had always assumed that the “slot” of a PCI card referred to which slot on the motherboard it was in. …
Enabling KVM nested virtualization for one guest without halting/rebooting all of them
peoro asked: I’d like to enable nested virtualization on KVM for at least one of my guests. I believe that this requires reloading the kvm_intel module passing it a nested=1 …