How to PROPERLY install KVM on Linux 

This video is actually the most detailed description of using KVM/QEMU on linux that I have seen. Well done!

Your Video is the most useful and best video I have ever viewed. I would give you a score of 10 on 5. I wish all the videos would work without a flaw. As a 40 year old windows consultant and a new Linux user I am most Impressed.

Your video is the most brilhant and detailed explanation ever !!!!!! Clear crystal explanation and examples in both linux distrubutions! Thanks a lot !!!!

Now this is great Linux content. Superb. We need more.

Thank you! You include so much info that other tutorials neglect.

Great video with comprehensive explanation. Awesome!

An extremely useful explanation... Thank thousand times... Looking forward for more videos.

you've answered a very important newby question in this video: I ket gettin "vo bootable device" as a result of newly installing any iso inside virt-manager and could not access to root at the same time. This video really opened up some new insight as to how some of these things really work....

This information you provided here is of high quality value. Thank you very much!

Thank you for this! Very detailed with explanations why! Best one yet on how to KVM/QEMU!

Wonderful presentation. Clear and precise. Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated.

Ran across your video on a Sunday evening, started to listen and watch. The best instructional video for KVM and QEMU I have seen to date.....and I have watched quite a few. Thank you!

Fantastic Job! I recommend everyone follow this tutorial along if you want to set up QEMU virtualization on your linux boxes. The network bridge part was a total life saver for me especially.

Thank you for not rushing and skipping steps. I'm having performance issues with my vm reproducing RU-vid videos, and I'll check if my installation is correct following your detailed video. Thanks a lot!

Great video! Thank you for the detailed explanations of each component it was very informative.

Plasma 6 is looking great! Thanks to everyone involved with KDE 😊 and thanks Nate for always communicating with users. It's a huge effort, but it pays off

After watching this I not only learnt more, I also gained a greater understanding of how all this goes together. My VM s are going to get tubed up.

We need more people's like you.

Thank you so much for this video!

I can not describe how great this video is. Continue please! Will you continue with virtualization topic, or you will also prepare guides for other topics ?

Very nice and useful video, THX.

Such great video, thank you so much

Awesome video, thank you!!

Very thorough

Excellent And also the other vids you made are excellent. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Wow Thank you so much. i learn a lot from your video very detailed and precise.

This is such a good video!

Awesome video, thank you so much

This video is Virtual Solid Gold. Excellent and detailed. Would be great to have a Part 2.

Congratulations Sir and thank you very much.

This is goated!!

Very good content and explanation. Liked the video, had a look at your channel and subscribed right away.

Oh man your videos and articles are gold. Wonder if we will get a guide about full gpu pass through on a kvm windows virtual machine using virt manager

Really great video my KVM setup just works fine. I wanted to learn KVM from A to Z can u suggest any KVM docs links on online

Brilliant

i really like your contents..🎉

Awesome

Thanks for this explanation, i've been setting up windows vm for the past week, and some of the info that you provided was new so i'm also gonna apply it there. The thing that i can't get to work properly yet, is networking. The VM heavily relies on being accessible to other devices in the LAN, so it's pretty important. I need the host OS to have the static ip of 192.168.1.11, and the guest OS to either being DHCP in range of 192.168.1.100-199(that's what my router's default range), or being static ip of something like 192.168.1.80 I've tried lots of things and have been encountering several issues like no internet on the VM, but most often after lots of tries: 1) Host loses it's static ip, and becomes DHCP random address(i guess that's the part of thing that it becomes the slave of bridge0?). 2) Host preserves it's static ip, VM retains it(trying to be as close as possible, it reports as being 192.168.1.112 inside the VM, i guess that's the closest possible free accessible IP of 192.168.1.11), internet inside the VM works, i can access it from other devices, and that's pretty much what i've settled onto, but it feels wrong because it's completely broken. I wish i just could make a virtual network inside the virt-manager with the address of 192.168.1.0/24, but it says it's already used by enp3s0.

#FiveStars Brilliant! Comprehensive! Thank you.

Excellent explanation! This is just what I needed to ditch Virtualbox for good. Can you explain the same for Arch, using Arch as the base distro installed? I had some issues following you from Arch.

Madhu ur a genius !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have seen many tutorials on how to setup KVM/QEMU on Linux, and this is by far the best! One question tho: Shouldn't the grub2-mkconfig -o argument be equal to "/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg" in case of UEFI based Fedora? And in my fedora /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is not a symlink to the real file. We would also love to see you guys make a video on how to use SELinux to protect KVM/QEMU VMs against exploits.

Hello @SysGuides. I tried to set up the bridge netwokr using your tuto previously verifying the tuned profile output some failure and as for the bridge, the state still on 'connecting (getting the IP configuration)'. I have tried using both the ethernet interface and the virbr0 interface, no success😭😭😭😭😭

Is there a way to setup a cluster. Sort of of a roll your own proxmox?

Any specific configuration to connect to Open Nebula 6.8? I'm trying to get out from VMware cuz this is a dev env and now with the new licence for vmw, things started to get too expensive. Cheers

do you have a tutorial about single gpu passthrough

This video is OUTSTANDING! Sadly, I got one issue, I do NOT use grub at all, but relay on System-D boot ... Ehhh where do I then add that "iommu=pt" ????? I am relative new into Linux, and have used grub boot before, but went system-d boot instead, since I feel it is fit my needs better (I don't use dual boot, nor Winblows anymore) Anyone here might be able to help me?

Good video but I would have included some warnings e.g. that you shouldn't just install and activate tuned as it could cause issues with services like tlp or other power management software.

Yeah... the Tuned Verify failed.... so I guess I am gonna have to go without it then. The net-start command failed as well. That place in the Bashrc file does not exit either. This has not been going well at all.... I think I am gonna start looking somewhere else for a better guide.....

Thanks for the guide, I'm having some troubles and as always its SELinux fault, do you know of the correct way to retag or passthrough a rule or something ? my main troublee its with the `/var/lib/libvirt` whole thing the images and and isos cannot run properly due to SELinux blocking certain executions, which I have checked logs and everytyhing and i'm ok with themn running

From what I can tell, the SEV feature is only available on AMD EPYC CPUs. I'm running a 5950X on an x570 motherboard, and there is no way to enable it in the BIOS. The kernel parameter does nothing. It seems that this is an Enterprise feature only.

Would the network config process be the same for hosts running on Wireless NIC?

Mate this is something good could you please share me some resources to learn network basics and understanding of bridge as later topic. Looks like bridge networking is a advanced topic. please share resource for networking on Linux for absolute beginners. Would be awesome mate.

rather than doing this virtio repo install, I just downloaded the ISO directly from their site and mounted it when installing Windows 11. Will that do the same?

Some things might be different in case of systemd-boot.

Unfortunaly, my laptop cpu has SEV disable on firmware so, no encrypted virtual memory for me

05:50 Has to be lscpu | grep -i virtualisation with an "s" not a "z', for me.

is there any guide for wireless connection? ]

Still stuck on getting ready

showing unable to locate package qemu- utils plz help

Please make a video "How to PROPERLY backup & restore KVM settings and guest to same and different hardware." Thank you.

Its taking forever to boot up Windows 11

Current active profile is virtual host but with sudo tuned-adm verify - I'm getting Verification failed, current system setting differ from the preset profile. Ive rebooted, it doesn't help. The preset profile is balanced.

For sure, libvirt etc. are totally dispensable. Why bloat your system? Only kvm and qemu suffice.