VIRTUAL Machines on LINUX with KVM, QEMU and Virt-Manager. Run ANY operating system.

[@Jeff_Seely]

Thank you Stephan. I have been using Virtualbox and running a Win10 machine on my Arcolinux host. I find it very heavy on resources and occasionally lagging. I understand that kvm/qemu is much better at sparing resources and will be making a Windows VM in Virtmanager. This is an excellent instructional video and was easy to follow and get up and running. Thank you.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@laskaofalaska]

Hey, I just want to say thank you. I did what you did step-by-step and now I finally have a functioning virtualization setup. Again, thank you ♥

[@mylinuxforwork]

That's great. Thanks for your feedback.

[@mylinuxforwork]

KVM Installation Script: gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/archinstall/-/blob/main/7-kvm.sh If you like this video, please subscribe to my channel: 👉 www.youtube.com/@mylinuxforwork/?sub_confirmation=1

[@louisdt241]

Thanks Stephan. You are by far my favourite Linux youtuber. Keep up the good work!

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks you so much.

[@ashterpz]

fantastic video, KVM is one of the reasons i wanted to switch to linux, and you explained it a lot better, more level headed and in depth than the rest of the videos ive watched. great stuff!

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much for your feedback.

[@jimmytubedk]

Sir you are super good to explain, thank you for your best website,ould you please make more video with qemu, really you are the only one who explaining KVM so professional and easy for everyone.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you very much for your feedback. I will plan more videos in the future. Want to update my GPU passthrough setup anyways.

[@CuttinEJ]

That worked! I’ve been struggling with virtual machines for a couple of weeks. VirtualBox works mostly, but I can’t get Hyperland to work. Until just now I couldn’t get kvm/qemu to create a VM. Arch is installing right now with Hyprland. Hopefully it will work this time. Looking forward to watching more of your videos on Arch and Hyprland. Thank you 🙏

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback. Don't forget to enable 3D acceleration. And don't forget that Hyprland is not made for VMs. That's why the performance will not be like native. But for testing it works for me.

[@CuttinEJ]

@@mylinuxforwork, hi there. I’ve been trying to get 3D acceleration to work. I have Nvidia, so that seems to be a problem. I’m using a laptop that has Intel Tiger Lake and Nvidia. I think it’s working with the Intel drivers, but it’s very laggy and I’m getting a little bit of screen tearing. But it is working. I need to learn quite a bit more about the configuration and key bindings before I graduate from the VM. Hopefully I’ll get what I need from your videos. 😊

[@cainnzm]

Incredible Tutorial, thank you so much for taking the time to make this!

[@mylinuxforwork]

You’re welcome.

[@EstebanFonsecaAR]

Virt Manager is superior to VirtualBox and VMWare by far !! :) I was able to create a full Sun Clutser with Solaris 10 X86, with separate cluster hartbeat networks, and another separate iSCSI network with Ubuntu server as a iSCSI SAN, worked like a charm, so far I did cluster filesystem, planning to add HA mysql to the cluster soon.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much for your feedback.

[@ernestg7466]

Muchas gracias, toda su ayuda ha sido muy útil.

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@ricardoy5491]

Genial Stephan...muchas gracias....

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@seydinabadiane8761]

You did such a great job, keep it up ;)

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much.

[@TheManiac85]

Hey Herr Raabe, great guide. Any tips for running the vm windows 10/11 on USB like the old to go version?

[@mylinuxforwork]

I believe this is not possible from a performance perspective. But never tried it out.

[@jeffreyplum5259]

Note You may want to set your KVM networking to use a bridged connection. Bridging makes your VMs. appear to be real machines on your local network This is great for servers Samba, local Web Servers and other resources you want your local network to reach. By default Kvm VMs us Nat on an isolated internal network. Nat supports outbound connections but hides your VMs from the local network. NAT used in most cases by your local router to block connections originating from the nasty outside Internet. There are many KZbin videos on setting up a network bridge. It is just adjusting some internal Linux settings to create a virtual switch your VMs and other programs connect through.. There are tools to do it on alinux desktop or even on servers with only a text console.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for this proposal. I had not luck to setup a bridged network. But maybe I give it another try.

[@jeffreyplum5259]

@@mylinuxforwork There is a Network Manager TUI text user interface which I have used before. Your NIC is connected to the bridge and the bridge take on your IP address. There are YT videos to help with this stuff. Good luck.

[@lionux6506]

Great job 😊

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks

[@CoolDudeClem]

Can anyone tell me HOW I can get 3D acceleration working on a Windows XP virtual machine with this? It's the only thing preventing me from switching to Linux. I have got just about everything working, except for a few old games and an old version of Adobe Premiere, which all work flawlessly in Windows XP. installing the virtual machine was easy enough, it's just the not being able to get 3D acceleration to work that's holding me back. This running in my Linux Mint Debian would make me a happy guy. Oh, and NO terminal stuff please, show me how do do it WITHOUT having to use that cursed thing.

[@mylinuxforwork]

If you need a system with enhanced GPU acceleration, I would suggest to consider GPU passthrough.

[@dci-WatchTutorials]

According to the Linux Foundation and Arch Wiki, "Note: the bridge-utils package is DEPRECATED, instead use the bridge command from iproute2 package." But you say to install it. Do you know what's going on with this? I'm confused.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. It’s a very dynamic topic. So changes or new recommendations are possible. What counts is what works at the end. I’m planning a new version of the video in the upcoming months.

[@socio9807]

Hey. What would happen if you simply installed the virt manager without changing anything in the config files? Would it not work at all? Would it work sub-optimally?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Will also work. I have this setup currently on my system to test my dotfiles on different Linux platforms. The config changes are mainly to prepare for type 1 emulation and passthrough the GPU. Give it a try.

[@erichanson5628]

Much appreciated!

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks

[@gabrielgsdlp]

Thanks for that!

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@Virtue2721]

I am trying to install from a cd and it keeps saying no instillation file detected

[@mylinuxforwork]

Just download and use the ISO.

[@cbbcbb6803]

What versions of windows can be run as a guest OS? What about Debian as the host?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Every version of Windows can run as a guest. Debian should work as well.

[@Ehren1337]

Any ideas how to fix this issue? $ virsh net-autostart default error: failed to get network 'default' error: Network not found: no network with matching name 'default'

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. Please check this page: serverfault.com/questions/534484/libvirt-network-error-no-default-network-device-found

[@larbesabdellah7079]

I did this command and let a space by mistake between ~/ and .docker , rm -rf ~/ .docker , all my home directories were deleted. Is that the real cause ?

[@mylinuxforwork]

The rm command is really dangerous. And with this command you remove your home folder.

[@larbesabdellah7079]

@@mylinuxforwork yeah right I did it so quickly I left a space that destroys my system , thank you for your answer and well done for all your videos

[@s8x.]

Is this with gpu pass thru?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. This video is about GPU passthrough Install GPU Passthrough on Arch Linux. HYPRLAND and Qtile integration with Looking Glass and RDP. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4DYq3mabayXaNE

[@Kappaツ]

thanks for the script ^^ still works :D maybe you could add it to the github instead of letting it stay on the gitlab?

[@mylinuxforwork]

You're right. Will do.

[@davidwayne9982]

CAN a VM be used to run ANDROID APPS??? I have a security system and don't want to have my phone on all the time for it... want it on my computer..... would that work? I do NOT use windows (I don't like CROOKED company's trash on my machine)..

[@mylinuxforwork]

Very good question. Have you already tried waydro.id ?

[@davidwayne9982]

@@mylinuxforwork Waydroid won't work without WAYLAND and I can't stand wayland-- too many glitches...and some software won't work with it.. including my DOC- which I use all the time.