

Key Bindings for Copy and Paste Under X11 I haven't run any real virtual machines yet under virt-manager, butĪt least I'm to the point where I can boot from a Debian installer Of the suggested and/or recommended packages, it won't run at all. Package in its basic form, and "depends" and "suggests" are for optionalīut if you install just virt-manager without at least some With most packages, the "requires" are all that's needed to use a They tend to pull in all sorts of silly bloatware I'll never want. They might be there in the "depends" and "suggests", but Package isn't set up to require on all the other packages it needs to run. Part of the problem, apparently, is that Debian's virt-manager Here's the list of packages I had to install, as wellĪs adding myself to the groups kvm, libvirt and libvirt-qemu:Īpt install virt-manager libvirt-daemon qemu qemu-kvm libvirt0 libvirt-bin virt-manager bridge-utils libvirt-daemon-system qemu-system-x86 qemu-utils dnsmasq gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 In the end, I did get virt-manager running. Getting a little further with each package I installed. Instead of giving up after the first few iterations.įiddling, installing more packages, web searching on the error messagesĪnd discussing them on IRC, then fiddling some more, Since I didn't have anything much going on, I agreed, and kept at it That happened again a few weeks ago, and one of the virt-managerĮnthusiasts on the channel wanted to help me track down the problems. To use virt-manager several times, with virt-manager enthusiasts on this Me: If you're running a full Gnome desktop, maybe. Newbie: Which is easier for virtualization, KVM/qemu or virtualbox?Įnthusiast: KVM/qemu is really easy if you use virt-manager. A conversation that happens every so often on a Linux chat channel:
