For these small setups I switchend from virt-manager to cockpit a while ago. Very nice nowadays; everything is in the browser. No need to install virt-manager. If I need to do more complex stuff, there is always virsh
Nice to see an easy way to do this.Last method I tried had you install qemu and a raft of dependencies first, then virt-manager, then you do your VM's. Your method is SO MUCH BETTER. Only problem, is I have NO IDEA how to get passed the fact I am not getting video. I have no idea what I need to view the VM's on a Windows machine, and no idea how to set it up.
This is quite cool, I didn't know that virt-manager could connect to remote hosts. On my home server I have Proxmox installed, it has a nice web UI for both KVM and LXC containers, so if I don't need to fully virtualize something I can spin up a container in seconds, I'd recommend you try it out, maybe in it's own VM (-;
It blows my mind how much people are unaware of what KVM on Linux is capable of. It's great for home lab with libvirt/virt-manager, but it's also the hypervisor that powers OpenStack, oVirt, Proxmox, KubeVirt ( Openshift Virtualisation ) and a heap of other enterprise grade software. People still throw money at VMWare out of habit or ignorance.
Reason is fairly simple. It isnt aware cuz mgmt just s**ks. Prox or VMware(not free anymore) etc are just much easier for beginners to use. Same comes for linux on desktop. Why it isn't popular? Cuz of what i said above ;)
nice - didn't know VMM supported remote management like that, seems like it'd be less tempremental than proxmox if you try to install something like Docker on the same machine, but you can manage Proxmox from windows & mac so I'm not sure if I'll get to try this one
The reason I use this is if I need a VM on a machine that I've already got Debian installed on like my desktop. Proxmox for web client is certainly good.
Nice and neat. I think the bridge trick might have been what's caused me a little pain when using KVM/Virt-Manager though it could also be that my host uses a USB wifi adapter as the primary network link at the moment and from what I've read that may cause issues when using a 'bridged' network adapter setting on the VM. And I may or may not have been wearing pants while writing this but, hey, it gets warm here in Brissy.
Yep. I've tried using it on my laptop via wifi and it didn't like it very much. So have to use Oracle VirtualBox as the built-in networking tools are dead easy to setup. I use ProxMox for my home lab and work.
@@Darkk6969 I too found the VirtualBox networking setup much easier to get my head around as I'm not a network guy. I'd like to learn a bit more and maybe wind-up a ProxMox server, but space and dollars are working against me on that front.
I'm special, I run my vm on windows. Got a home assistant server, but going to build an adsb flight radar 24 server next, want the free business account.
No, and I'll tell you why. I mean yes you're right, but you need to simulate an actual power outage to see if the system will return after said power outage. I need to make sure it comes up fine at bootup anyway.
Lenovo M73 TFF, 16GB/1TB, clean install of Debian 12, Server. Got everything set up as per the steps in the video, nada on br0 not even showing in > ip a. My ethernet connection is/was eno1. (does say altname enp0s25 but that name has no effect anywhere) Has wifi with interface wlp2s0. Figured out what was missing: sudo brctl add br0 popped up immediately after that.
Depending on the graphics card in there, it might have been a good idea to keep it and see if GPU passthrough is possible with the correct iommu groups.
I thought exactly the same thing. Then I asked someone, who said unless it's passed through to the VM to use it, it makes no point. I think he's right too, so I pissed it off.
I love the aussie no bullshit approach, to tech, the video format, content and hell even clothes. More power to the “nudie-sysadmin” and hope there’s more of it! :)
Bottom line... Anything you want. Start off by replacing your routers services, since it'll die next week. Move DHCP to a virtual machine. Then move DNS over to PiHole. Or, setup a minecraft server, or gaming server of some sort. Or, turn it into a NAS controller. I'm running crazy hardware for a home-labber, and have my internet modem acting as a MODEM. None of the "protective" crap the ISP likes to do for you on your behalf without any control on how you want to run your network.
