How to install & use QEMU+KVM and virt-manager

In this video I'll cover installing QEMU and virt-manager and setting your first virtual machine. In my opinion, the performance you get out of QEMU with KVM is much better than alternatives such as VirtualBox and VMWare. And unlike the others, QEMU is open source!

Commands using various package managers;

DEBIAN/MINT/UBUNTU using apt (apt-get)
sudo apt install virt-manager
ARCH/MANJARO using pacman
sudo pacman -S virt-manager
FEDORA using dnf
sudo dnf install virt-manager
OPENSUSE using zypper
sudo zypper install virt-manager

Time Stamps;
00:00 Intro

00:49 Installing
03:32 Troubleshooting issues
05:04 Create a VM
07:43 First boot from ISO
09:37 Additional VM settings
13:28 Concluding remarks

[nothingiseverperfect]

Recently learned about this, thank you for making it so simple! Thank you! And also starting the tutorial with what the end product is going to be was FANTASTIC. THANK YOU

[ChrisPatti]

Thank you very much for this video! I really appreciate how much detail you go into and your teaching style is very straightforward and easy to understand. Also want to thank you as a low vision person for using large font sizes whenever you have the terminal up!

[danielarango]

Thank you buddy! you made it simple, easy, clear... I've seen lots of ways to do this there out, and 😤I don't know why they complicate too much such simple process. Awesome video! ✌🤗

[jonathangriffin]

Great video. Appreciate the install walk thru and thoughts on usage.

[lesapotres]

Thank you so much for your very comprehensive and in depth tutorial. What I really needed for setting up access to the USB and other settings. God bless you for your kind help.✝😇

[pctlc]

Excellent tutorial thanks Dorian!! I've been wanting to do this for a long time, you've inspired me.!!

[shorthornstudios]

Good Video! Very informative and hope you are doing well. (Also, Merry Christmas).

[iuhere]

Very Nice video. Keep them coming. One suggestion, a compliment to this video could be setting up two monitors and showing separate displays running separate OS running. Especally any game running on windows(pc) version in addition to kvm shared resources like keyboard and mouse separately. Although that might be a complex setup but many people (gamers) would love to see that counting myself in the same. Thanks for sharing this one, and good luck for the next one👍

[kreator]

Thank you for the video! I like very much Virt-manager.

[atachualpas]

Thanks, very nice video! On my Linux-Mint the virt-manager is also in Synaptic. Performance is not so good like in VirtualBox or VMware, but its good enough to try out some things...

[AbarSimorgh]

Thank you for the video.
If on openSUSE Leap (15.2 in my case at the moment) after installing virt-manager and qemu-kvm, libvirt daemon and KVM server need to be installed through YaST by doing the following:
YaST > Virtualization > Install Hypervisor and Tools > tick for 'KVM Server' and tick for 'libvirt LXC daemon' then 'Accept'. Let it install then reboot.
If you have NVidia installed manually you need to re-install the NVIDIA*.run file again and run mkinitrd and reboot.

[paulseldn]

Great video Dorian...Many thanks...I can't seem to get drag and drop working, but I can redirect my external USB SSD recognized by virt. goodbye rubbish buggy Virtualbox

[BrucesWorldofStuff]

Watched PCTLC video on Vitr-Manager and he suggested that we ( I ) should come over and watch you video too!
Liked the video and I watched a few others so i decided to Sub to your channel... :-)
Thanks for the video!
LLAP

[SaurabhKhatiwada]

Thanks for making this video! Even in the initial blender video you demo-ed that screen tearing between 0:05 and 0:06 is something ive never been able to fix whoch is preventing me from going to linux full time. Anyone know if thats fixable atall? On nvidia btw

[lannieschafroth]

Any guides on getting to the beginning of your video? Ubuntu install? Arch?

[abhaydayma]

Don't have words to thank this guy. I am extremely thankful, sending you my best wishes from Bharat! :)

[ivanhoe]

Nice video! What about Gnome Boxes, does it use qemu/kvm as well?

[mekuranda]

great refresher on this subject. I always have issues in copy pasting and networking between VMs and Host...I would love a simple solution if one exists

[IPear]

Note: qemu-kvm is no longer mantained and everything is now in the mainline qemu package

[zbilel]

Thanks a lot this is the first time I understand how to install KVM ❤,
Q : how I can switch between Wayland and X11 (xorg).
😊