Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

[John Covici]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:12:05 -0500,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:40 AM Petric Frank <pfrank@×××.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2021, 15:31:43 CET schrieb Yixun Lan:
> > > On 07:33 Fri 31 Dec     , John Covici wrote:
> > > > Hi.  I am looking for some guidance on installing virtual machines
> > > > under gentoo.  I have a 5.10.82 kernel and I would like to use kvm if
> > > > possible to do this.  I have seen lots of instructions for  installing
> > > > vms using virtualbox but not much else.  I have a gentoo system with
> > > > enough memory to run a vm or two and would like to use it as the host.
> > > >
> > > > I have downloaded xen to take a look at it as well.
> > > >
> > > > I hope this is not too vague, so please bare with me.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest to try qemu kvm + libvirt
> >
> > For a graphical GUI frontend for this you can use app-emulation/virt-manager.
>
> ++
>
> This is just a front-end to libvirt and kvm, so you're building
> entirely on solid technologies, and anything you set up with the GUI
> can be edited or run or otherwise managed from the command line, and
> vice-versa.  It ends up resembling something like VirtualBox or the
> old VMWare Workstation edition, but it is all FOSS and in-kernel so it
> just is more reliable/etc.
>
> That said, I only use VMs situationally and at this point just about
> everything I'm doing is in containers if it can be linux-based.  Way
> lighter all-around, even if I'm running a full OS in the container.  I
> personally prefer to run my containers with nspawn and virtual
> ethernet, so each container gets its own IP via DHCP.
>
> Oh, and for kvm if you want to run your guests on your main LAN you'll
> probably need to set up a bridge interface.

Thanks everyone.  I probably will have more questions, I will continue
this thread later.

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