KVM / virt-manager

To review the software seems to work OK if the user knows which packages to install. I have always thought that various versions of Qemu were for expert/developer level folks.

If I remember correctly, at present this would be the install list:

virt-manager
qemu
qemu-img
qemu-kvm
lib64gtksourceview-gir4

Maybe this will work:

sudo dnf in virt-manager qemu qemu-img qemu-kmv lib64gtksourceview-gir4

Then either reboot or run:

$ sudo systemctl start libvirtd

And one more thing, add user to libvirt group so you do not have to enter root password every time you open the software"

$ sudo usermod -aG libvirt username

And after you install a virtual machine you probably need to install qemu-guest-agent. If there is other software to install in a guest I did not get that far.

I was not much of an expert today… But I learned a little bit.

Edit: I’ll stick to complaining about VirtualBox for now but Qemu does have some promise if ever there were a good Qt frontend for it.

Edit-2: Forgot something. Updated to add either reboot or run systemctl start libvirtd.

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