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Overview
Basic virtualization on Fedora using libvirt family of tools.
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Installing packages
$ dnf group info virtualization Last metadata expiration check: 1:30:35 ago on Wed 04 Apr 2018 02:53:03 PM EDT. Group: Virtualization Description: These packages provide a graphical virtualization environment. Mandatory Packages: virt-install Default Packages: libvirt-daemon-config-network libvirt-daemon-kvm qemu-kvm virt-manager virt-viewer Optional Packages: guestfs-browser libguestfs-tools libvirt-client python-libguestfs virt-top $ sudo dnf group install [--with-optional] @virtualization $
Small problem:
$ sudo dnf group install --with-optional virtualization Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:26 ago on Wed 04 Apr 2018 03:53:26 PM EDT. Group 'Virtualization' is already installed. No match for group package "python-libguestfs" Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete! $
systemd
$ systemctl status libvirtd
● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-04-04 11:40:44 EDT; 5h 21min ago
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
http://libvirt.org
Main PID: 1551 (libvirtd)
Tasks: 18 (limit: 32768)
Memory: 38.5M
CPU: 512ms
CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service
├─1551 /usr/sbin/libvirtd
├─2027 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-
└─2028 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-
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Modules
$ lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 233472 0 kvm 700416 1 kvm_intel irqbypass 16384 1 kvm $