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How to display 3D Wayland inside a virtual machine?
I'd like to try Wayfire—a 3D Wayland compositor—inside a virtual machine.
What are the options and requirements to make a virtual machine that can display a Wayland compositor with 3D acceleration?
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Running Alpine Linux on QEMU ARM guests
I'm trying to build packages for Alpine Linux, which has official support for x86, x86_64, armhf, aarch64, s390x, ppc64le, so I want to build for all of these architectures.
Currently I'm using QEMU'...
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Unable to resume KVM guest after rebooting host
I'm running KVM on Linux Mint 17.1, kernel 3.16.0-31-generic. The only guest is a Windows 8.1 VM. I've noticed that if I reboot the host while the guest is running, I'm unable to resume the guest ...
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usb-host is not a valid device name - error when trying to pass USB to Qemu
I have tried to use various variations of adding a usb device to my Windows VM but to no avail.
I have a Yocto project derived Wind River Linux, withQemu-kvm` installed. The guest OS is Windows 10.
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QEMU/KVM - Getting "Error connecting to graphical console: Error opening Spice console SpiceClientGtk missing" when trying to create a VM
I am trying to create a virtual machine using QEMU/KVM. I am getting an error:
Error connecting to graphical console: Error opening Spice console SpiceClientGtk missing
I have looked around but ...
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What emulator / VM software can I use to create a Win32-portable Linux Guest?
I want to create a portable VM setup so that I can boot a Linux install regardless of which Windows XP / Windows 7 host machine I am on.
I was looking at Qemu but it doesn't appear to have a ...
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Virsh doesn't list virtual machines
On arch, I set up a number of VMs using virt-manager. My user is part of the libvirt group, and I can access virsh, but virsh list without root access doesn't list the VMs I created:
$ virsh list --...
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Unable to do USB passthrough with QEMU
I have installed virt-mananager and QEMU
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin bridge-utils virt-manager;
I also installed
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
sudo apt-get install ...
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Register super/win key press in qemu
I'm setting up a VM of my Linux setup using qemu by directly running the .img file through qemu-system-x86_64.
I've got it working, however when I try to do a keybinding with the Super key in my VM, ...
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aarch64 VM; amd64 host; "invalid accelerator kvm"
I have an ARM64 machine, which I want to emulate as a VM on my desk for testing. This will be the first time I'm emulating ARM64 on an AMD64, I'm clueless, and I went fumbling for hints.
I found one ...
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No internet connection when trying to install Arch linux in qemu
I'm trying to slowly switch from windows to linux. So I thought that it will be good idea to install arch on VM. Since I learned about VM's I was using VirtualBox but now I wanted to try qemu, because ...
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Can't ssh into arch linux live environment in qemu
I started arch linux in a qemu vm with guest port 22 connected to host port 60022, set the root password in the guest, and edited the sshd config in the guest to allow root logins and set the log ...
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How can I prevent certain keys (e.g. Super/Win) from being passed through to a qemu guest?
I am running a Windows 10 guest under Linux using qemu / virt-manager. All of my WM shortcuts in X use the super (windows) key. I don't really need that key for anything inside the Windows VM. Is ...
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How speedup qemu? My launch parameters very slow
Im try launch VM under windows 10 x64, qemu 4.0.92.0 on my rented VDS
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -accel tcg,thread=single -smp
cpus=1,cores=2,threads=2 -boot order=d -drive
file=C:\Users\admin\...
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linux 'top' not showing all processes
I am running linux top command to see processes running inside qemu VM. Sometimes, a process does not appear in them, but if I run,
ps -eo psr,pcpu,comm | grep myprocessname
then the process is ...
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Windows 10 VM Bootloop
I've replaced my intel i5 with an amd ryzen 7. Now my Windows 10 VM (libvirt/qemu) won't boot, it just shows "preparing automatic repair" and then reboots.
I cannot boot from a rescue iso either. I ...
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USB passthrough to VM with maximum isolation from host
I'm thinking of experimenting with some USB devices in a virtual machine (preferably QEMU). For security reasons, I don't want to let them interact with the host.
Things I've tried:
Doing nothing ...
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QNX Momentics IDE won't connect to Qemu virtual target (Linux host)
I'm trying to set up the dev environment for QNX SDP 8 in Linux. But for some reason I can't get the virtual target to work.
I sourced the QNX env script and called the check-net script before ...
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QEMU (with virtmanager) boots to uefi shell when trying to install windows 11
I'm trying to make a windows 11 qemu VM on my arch linux install but when I start it it shows:
this
what can I do to make it boot normally into the windows installer with UEFI and secure boot?
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Image format was not specified, Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove restrictions
I am trying to virtualize NVME based linux in QEMU on Windows using:
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -cdrom ubuntu-18.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso -drive file=nvmeimage.img,if=
none,format=raw,id=D22 -device ...
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Can I safely copy vmdk disk while VM is still running?
I have a virtual machine in QEMU with snapshots (vmdk-disk) and I need to have a clone of that machine in another host. But I can't shutdown this VM for some reasons and can't clone it through the ...
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VGA and Audio assigned to VFIO but not USB and Serial Controller of RTX 2080
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I'm trying to set-up GPU-passthrough on a linux host with KVM so that I might run a Windows guest for gaming. I've been having a problem where some IOMMU entries (all belonging to the GPU I ...
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How to disable buffering for a LVM partition under QEMU KVM
I'm using Windows 10 under QEMU KVM on a Fedora 27 box. Disk for a VM is attached as a raw LVM partition with cache=none.
<disk type='block' device='disk' >
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'...
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virt-install ListActivatableNames Connection is Closed
I'm trying to use virt-install to easily set up a vm. Silly me.
The endgame here is to have roughly ten of these bad boys running that all have to be able to communicate with one another via ssh, ...
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Libvirt memory management host and guest
I have set up two guest oses a ubuntu box dedicated to be a vm host. It has two physical cpus (with 6 cores each), 16 GB RAM, and 3 harddisks. Host os is on a 60GB SSD, while the guest oses are on ...
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Passing USB controller to VFIO Virtual Machine
Im running a Windows 10 VM using qemu version 2.10.1 on kernel 4.14.1 with a GPU passed through. I can also pass through an Intel-based USB controller. So far so good.
My Intel USB controller does ...
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How to configure qemu with a raw drive, but have it not fail if the drive is missing?
I'm using Proxmox, which uses qemu under the hood. I have a vm that needs to access drives directly, so I have lines such as the following in my .conf:
sata1: /dev/disk/by-uuid/f203be0a-4135-4964-...
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spicy-client assertion failure after computer crash
I usually use spice-client to connect to remote VMs without any problem.
Today during usual work my pc freezed (I am strong confident that this is not due to spice) and forced me to brute shutdown.
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What would cause a mouse offset between a local TinyCore installation and remote VNC console?
I have this odd issue with TinyCore Linux (v7.2.0) running inside of QEMU on Linux. When I start the VM and run my VNC client the local and remote pointer are out of sync. The offset is about 2 inch ...
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How to check QEMU virtual machine filesystem without the user password
I'm doing a couple of tests of Ubuntu autoinstall using cloud-init. In order to do so, I am following an example that's presented in the Autoinstall QuickStart page. In the given example, the ...
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