https://coderonline.de/configuration/server/virtualization/ Recent content in virtualization on CoderOnline Hugo en Sun, 12 Jul 2020 22:17:14 +0200 https://coderonline.de/configuration/server/virtualization/qemu-kvm/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:32:48 +0100 https://coderonline.de/configuration/server/virtualization/qemu-kvm/ <h2 id="libvirt"> libvirt <a class="anchor" href="#libvirt">#</a> </h2> <p>Running anything as root always has security implications and so has libvirt. Therefor make sure you have your user set in <code>/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf</code>:</p> <div class="highlight" title="/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-cfg" data-lang="cfg"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#75715e"># /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#a6e22e">...</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#a6e22e">user</span> <span style="color:#f92672">=</span> <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;max&#34;</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#a6e22e">group</span> <span style="color:#f92672">=</span> <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;kvm&#34;</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#a6e22e">...</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>which implies, that your virtual machines are accessable by the defined user and group as well. They usually live under <code>/var/lib/libvirt/images</code> when using libvirtd, where you can mount anything.</p> <h2 id="manually-call-qemu-with-kvm"> manually call qemu with kvm <a class="anchor" href="#manually-call-qemu-with-kvm">#</a> </h2> <p>You can use this script to start virtual machines manually and with many features enabled.</p>