Re: Virtualization under Bookworm
Op 26-08-2023 om 18:40 schreef Carl Fink:
Hi,
I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on
my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox,
just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then.
What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create a
one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? As this is not my job or even
main hobby, ideally it should have setup at least as easy as VirtualBox
was back in the day.
System is an ASUS ExpertCenter PN52 (Ryzen 7 6800, 32 GB of RAM, 2
terabyte SSD).
I can advice virt-manager, it is like Virtualbox was, but the modules
are allready in the kernel so don't have to be compiled like with
Virtualbox. And virt-manager is in Debian, Virtualbox is not in Debian
so far I know.
Some advices:
You have to add yourself to the group libvirt, something like:
adduser carl libvirt
And it's important to start the virtual network by default:
virsh net-autostart default
To start a virtual machine in one click so without starting virt-manager
first I make a script like this:
----
#!/bin/bash
sudo /usr/bin/virsh start win11
virt-manager --connect qemu:///system --show-domain-console "win11"
----
It seems to be faster when you use another driver for your virtual disk.
There are many manuals for setting it up. It's not really difficult.
With regards,
Paul
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Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen
https://vandervlis.nl
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