Installing
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, Install the needed Tool: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…
3. Installing KVM
Now you are Ready to Install KVM on Kali System
Now KVM should already be there, to Check for it try to load the Kernel Module:modprobe kvm
Again on Intel Processors:
modprobe kvm_intel
But for AMD instead:
modprobe kvm_amd
Last, to Add the default Virtualization Frontend managing Stack run:
sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils
Following Kali 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