I am trying to create a virtual machine using libvirt using the command: virsh create file Contents of "file": <domain type='qemu' id='3'> <name>testvm</name> <memory>...

Installed virt-manager, target virtual machine is debian jessie with spice-vdagent installed shared clipboard, and latency-free mouse input works Display: Spice Video: QXL Channel spice: spicevmc,...

I am currently trying out the Windows Subsystem for Linux v2, on a Windows 10 Fast Ring build (Build 20161). More specifically, I am trying to run a qemu-kvm virtual machine using nested virtualiza...

I am trying to Provision VMs on KVM with Terraform. one of the steps in installations is to download and install the provider buy the command: go install github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-lib...

After reading wiki libvirt I started virt-install to install VM off the Debian10 netinstall ISO image: % sudo virt-install --debug --connect qemu:///system --virt-type kvm --name vm-debian --memory...

I can pull the following CPU values from libvirt: virsh domstats vm1 --cpu-total Domain: 'vm1' cpu.time=6173016809079111 cpu.user=26714880000000 cpu.system=248540680000000 virsh cpu-stats vm1 ...

I've installed qemu virt-manager libvirt on Linux Mint 20, I have a AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor with AMD-V enabled in the bios, restarted a lot but virt-manager(Virtual Machine Manager) is ...

I'm trying to run an ARM64 Ubuntu VM on an x86_64 host with vagrant for development purposes. I searched the vagrant box on their website only found this one: https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/sear...

I have tried installing KVM according to the guidelines provided on Ubuntu wiki but when I open Virtual Machine Manager it says that, 'Warning: KVM is not available. This may mean the KVM package ...

I've used Vagrant with Virtualbox before but VB is not working on this computer so I thought I would try a different approach, but I can't quite make sense of this cluster of software, what their u...

I am looking for a solution to fetch the ipv4 address or other metadata of a VM running on qemu/kvm with libvirt? I've also looked into ovirt guest agent and qemu guest agent, but I was wondering i...

I accidently deleted the /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml. How to restore it? Thanks.

Here is my simple udev rule: ACTION=="add",SUBSYSTEM=="usb",DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-13",RUN+="/opt/usb-libvirt-hotplug/usb-libvirt-hotplug.sh debian_testing" ACTION=="add...

I found a lot of warning from the VM qemu log, Does this warn affect virtual machine performance or use? , is my libvirt.xml file problem? Or support hot-plug will have these warnings This is my l...

I am trying to get the information of vcpus running on my machine and for the same I am using libvirt. I am not able to understand how to use the api virDomainGetVcpus which has arguments cpumaps ...

Hi I recently did a experiment of virtio-scsi over rbd through qemu target (for its DISCARD/TRIM support), and compared the throughput and iops with that of a virtio-blk over rbd setup on the same ...

The format qcow2 support copy-on-write.detail about qcow2 is here. Does libvirt suport clone qcow2 VM Image with copy-on-write. I find none options about: virt-clone

I'm trying to do a simple script that will get various informations about running domains on a xen host. So far, i have : import libvirt import pprint conn = libvirt.open('xen:///') for id in c...

I would like to use libvirt to run multiple Domains (VMs) based on the same image at once. The image itself should not be modified. The image should be considered as a starting point or template. ...

I set autoport=yes in a domain's("virtual machine" in libvirt) config file so the VNC port is assigned automatically in the run time. I need to get this port so I can connect to the vm from outsid...

I am trying to run a simple instance after a fresh installation of OpenStack. The instance cannot start and in the log I found "libvirtError: internal error Cannot find suitable CPU model for given...

I am trying to create a python script to handle basic VM operations like: create a VM, delete a VM, start, stop, etc. Currently I'm rather "stuck" on create From the command line you woul...

How would you set the boot order on KVM when using libvirt/virsh? (Either via config or command)

Basic Problem: We've been experiencing very strange behaviour in our current infrastructure setup: file download speed from Amazon S3 drops to <2 kb/s (after ~10 downloads that have perfectly...

I'm trying to get started on libvirt with VirtualBox as a virtualization solution. I installed everything and VirtualBox itself is running when using their VBoxHeadless command. However, libvirt fa...