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AMD GPU pass-through doesn't work on Windows 7 (even though NVIDIA works)

I have a multi-gpu VM setup (Nvidia GTX 970 and AMD RX 6600) with Windows 7, Windows 10, macOS virtual machines. I pass GPU directly to a guest operating system (isolate from host-os and pass them ...
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How to Reach QEMU VM's with IP Address (Optionally Static)?

Situation I have two QEMU KVMs (named master and worker, respectively) running on my laptop. The VMs use the headless server edition of Ubuntu 22.04, and the laptop is running Mint. Goal I want three ...
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Emulating IDE in KVM in Debian 10

We have an old rack server with Windows Server 2008 (not R2) Our goal is to virtualize it and move into new hardware. The new PC has a Debian10 as a main OS with KVM enabled. I have used disk2vhd (...
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virt-manager fails to initialize EGL render node for SPICE GL with NVIDIA proprietary drivers

I have virt-manager on a Fedora Workstation 26 host. I have set up a Virtual Machine with Windows 11 Educational. I have a Spice display server, with Listen Type set to “None”, and OpenGL set on with ...
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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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VirtualBox 6.1x: How enable 'Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-V' to enable 'KVM virtualization'?

Using VirtualBox 6.1.36 - in 2 different laptops with Windows 7 and 10 Home - the guest is Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 - I have the following situation about Docker: Docker Desktop remains stopped on Ubuntu ...
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libvirt and hotswappable single USB port with virt-manager - almost there?

Description USB not visible on Debian guest. I cannot see anything obvious from the logs but because I do not have much virtualisation experience I assume I missed a step in the configuration, ...
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Possible to move a guest OS on VirtManager (Linux) to Windows?

For VirtualBox or VMware Workstation,one could copy the guest OS data directory to another computer and run it there. For example, I could create a guest OS on Linux, and then copy the guest data ...
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Boot virtual Windows 10 KVM from physical machine

I have a Windows 10 QEMU/KVM setup whose virtual disk is in qcow2 format. I would like to boot my physical machine using this virtual disk. Is it possible to write the content of this virtual disk to ...
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Performance issues with KVM versus Virtualbox

I'm trying to use KVM on Ubuntu (5.8.0-59-generic #66~20.04.1-Ubuntu) and finding some serious performance issues. In order to quantify the problem, I tried a fresh install of Windows 7, both under ...
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Installing Windows virtualization features within KVM virtual machine causes early-boot guest crash

See updates below for what I've discovered about the more general nature of this problem. I have a Windows VM running OVMF firmware with VFIO passthrough for a graphics card running on an Arch Linux ...
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Are hardware drivers needed to be installed on the management OS of a type 1 hypervisor?

Type 2 hypervisors such as VMware Workstation run virtual machines on top of a host OS. Only the the host needs hardware drivers, while the guests do not as they are running on virtual hardware. On ...
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virt-manager kvm modules are not available

Fedora 16 latest updates running on a HP Mini 210 with an Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N550 @ 1.50GHz. sudo yum groupinstall Virtualization Only installed virt-viewer sudo yum groupinstall Virtualization ...
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Pass through ACPI devices in KVM

Is there a way to pass through ACPI devices to a KVM guest? I'm trying to create a debugging environment for an ACPI device.
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KVM/QEMU: Hardware acceleration not working

I was trying to install my first virtual machine with KVM and QEMU but it does seem to use hardware acceleration as intended. I came to that conclusion first because it is terribly slow and second ...

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