[DESKTOP] Installing KVM

[steve7233]

I tried the instructions here : https://getlabsdone.com/10-easy-step...dows-10-KVM-VM When I tried to create a VM I got an error: see attached. any help would be appreciated.

[GreyGeek]

Your link won't let me in and I won't drop my adblocker.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article...linux-machine/

[oshunluvr]

Try this one GG:

https://www.tecmint.com/install-kvm-on-ubuntu/

[oshunluvr]

... When I tried to create a VM I got an error: see attached. any help would be appreciated.

That screen shot isn't helpful at all. I can't read anything on it - way too small. Instead of posting the entire screen, why not just focus in on the section with the error?

[GreyGeek]

Your link won't let me in and I won't drop my adblocker.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article...linux-machine/

Try this one GG:

https://www.tecmint.com/install-kvm-on-ubuntu/

That's two good sites on how to do it.

[steve7233]

I can not get libvirtd daemon to run and https://www.tecmint.com/install-kvm-on-ubuntu/ fails to tell me how.

steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$ sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd
Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/libvirtd.service is masked.
steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$ lsmod | grep -i kvm
kvm_intel             282624  0
kvm                   663552  1 kvm_intel

[steve7233]

Progress but still not working:

steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$ sudo systemctl status libvirtd
Unit libvirtd.service could not be found.

However. Running virt-manager, opens the program but it says:
ibvirtd is installed but not running. Start the libvirtd service to manage virtualization on this host.

A virtualization connection can be manually added via File->Add Connection

Now, what do I try? Google searches aren't much help.

[jlittle]

I've been meaning to get into this stuff so I installed qemu-kvm, bridge-utils, and virt-manager, and apt started the daemon. Several reboots later, and it seems to be running fine.

This suggests that your install didn't work. I suggest checking /var/log/apt/term.log (or if it was a while ago, the term.log.*.gz files) to review what happened. On my Kubuntu, there were 75 packages pulled in and so a lot of output, 363 lines; it would be easy to miss errors.

[steve7233]

Is it possible that the name libvirtd was changed? Or maybe Kubuntu and Ubuntu have different packages?

[steve7233]

I found the solution!

sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-system

sudo systemctl start libvirtd

It created a new kdewallet then I was able to create the VM I found it on an ask ubuntu forum post.