How to add virtual storage as SSD in KVM
zypA13510 asked: Being previously a VirtualBox user, I moved to KVM(QEMU/libvirt or whatever it’s called) recently. I know that in VirtualBox, when you add a new storage device to the …
Get Latest OS Variant dictionary definitions for KVM
Marvin asked: I have a Debian 9.4 host running KVM. I need to deploy a Windows Server 2016 guest. However, the current osinfo definitions only cover up to Windows Server …
Centos 5.5 on Hyper-V 2016
Pawel Grzeda asked: I’m trying to install Centos 5.5 on Hyper-V 2016. The installation process passes correctly but when I try to boot newly installed system it stuck at the …
VNC faster than Spice for remote access to KVM guest?
hdave asked: Having used RDP before, I’m not exactly thrilled with the performance I am seeing from VNC to my KVM virtual machines. The KVM host is Ubuntu 12.04 server …
Installing Pfsense in KVM
ApertureSecurity asked: I am trying to install PFsense in KVM and it keeps failing for not finding an installable distribution. What does the following error mean? Fetching volume XML failed: …
libvirt cpu-mode='host-model' confuses while mapping cpu models?
Rohanil asked: I have physical host which has cpu model ‘Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz’ and it has ‘avx2’ flag in cpuinfo. The host has kvm/qemu hypervisor and …
How can I check how much ram available to add to guest OS on libvirt?
Gani Rakhmatov asked: I have a server with 32 gb ram and there is libvirt. There are 12 gb of ram is used. When I try to add ram to …
Why host stops when halting LXC guest?
swbandit asked: I’m following these directions to create an LXC box on Debian 7 (wheezy): http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2013/07/18/crafting-your-own-vagrant-lxc-base-box/ I start a container/guest using this command: sudo lxc-start -n wheezy-base But when I …
KVM Guest not powering back on
user233179 asked: I have recently setup a homelab with a KVM hypervisor: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.3.x86_64 libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7_2.4.x86_64 I have almost everything working the way I want it (networking/vnc), but there is something that …
Files left over after removing KVM guest
red888 asked: Looking at this post I ran the following commands to remove a VM: sudo rm /var/lib/libvirt/images/centos01.qcow2 sudo virsh undefine centos01 –managed-save –snapshots-metadata But it looks like I still …