Installing
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2. Pre-Installation Checks
Then Check if KVM Can be Installed
With:egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
If in Output > 0 then your Processor support Hardware Virtualization!
(But on a PC you may have still to enable it on BIOS…)
Now again, first Install needed Tool with:sudo apt install cpu-checker
And then Verify it:
kvm-ok
If it’s Good you will see:
INFO: /dev/kvm exists KVM acceleration can be used
Finally, if the answer is negative you can still use KVM but only in a Slow mode…
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3. Installing KVM
Now you are Ready to Install KVM on MX System
sudo apt update
sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils
Following MX Documentation about KVM related Packages:
- libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system provides libvirtd which you need to administer qemu and kvm instances using libvirt
- qemu-kvm is the backend
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4. Adding User to Group
Next Add User to libvirt Group
So to Add User run:sudo adduser $LOGNAME libvirt
This because only the Users of this Group can Run Virtual Machines.
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5. Verifing KVM Installation
Finally, Test Installation.
Simply performing:
virsh list --all
And in the Output you should find:
Id Name State ----------------------------------------------------
This because still no VMs has been made.
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