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The virt-manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt

Virt-manager application is which uses libvirt APIs to create, manage and use Virtual machines.

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virt-viewer slower than virt-manager when viewing

I've got a thin client server in which I have a few VM's for users under KVM which I manage through virt-manager. What I've noticed is if I start a VM guest on a thin client using the command 'virt-viewer ' then the guest is painfully slow to move…
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virt-install KVM "Cannot open display "

So I am trying to create a VM using KVM (on CentOS 6.3) and the command I use is as follows: virt-install --connect qemu:///system --virt-type kvm --name ffVM32 --ram 1024 --disk path=/home/datastore/images/ffVM32.img,size=10 --vnc --cdrom …
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can't install VM using virt-install

I use this command: virt-install -r 1024 --vcpus=2 --accelerate --nographics -n test -f test.img --cdrom /iso/CentOS.iso but I doesn't show the text based install: boot: linux text Loading vmlinuz................................. Loading…
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Understanding Current/Maximum allocation of VirtManager (LibVirt)

When I first saw the UI in VirtManager, I thought "Maximum" is the amount of ram that appears to the guest, and "Current" is the reserved RAM when the VM starts. I thought that VirtManager will automatically reserve more RAM when the guest request…
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How do you determine the location of a Vagrantfile from virt-manager?

OS is Debian 10, vagrant provider is libvirt. vagrant global-status is supposed to provide information on all vms on a system, but I can see shutoff and running vms in virt-manager that are not listed by vagrant global-status. I have only used…
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Repeated loss of network connectivity to QEMU/KVM/virt-manager VM

I'm having frequent network connectivity failures under the QEMU/KVM/virt-manager stack on openSUSE Leap 15.1. I have a single VM running a software firewall, which is losing connectivity every few days, taking down internet connectivity as a…
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Virsh can't detect my new vm

I have a *.qcow2 image from my old OS, it contains Windows 10. Then I copied it to the new OS and tried to install it. I followed the method written here "How to create a new domain from an existing base image in virsh". But my VM does not appear…
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Docker inside LXC starting container process caused "apply caps: operation not permitted"

I'm trying to run a Docker container inside an LXC container. However doing so causes me to get the following error: [root@DH-DockerLXC01 alex]# docker run fedora bash docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed:…
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How I increase GPU video RAM in virt-manager?

I have this text in my XML
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Using virt-builder to create image

I'm trying to automatically create cloud images using virt-builder. I am using the following command in Centos 7 and it keeps failing. Any idea behind the issue ? # virt-builder debian-9 -o /var/lib/libvirt/images/DB9-20G.qcow2 --format qcow2 …
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USB passthrough not working using virt-manager/qemu

I have created a virtual machine using virt-manager 1.3.2 and wanted to add a USB device. However, the USB device does not show up in the guest (Debian) when using lsusb. In another virtual machine that I created without virt-manager, USB…
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virt-viewer not starting up correctly

I just installed virt-viewer on RHEL7.3 using yum install virt-viewer and now I am getting below error [root@host ~]# virt-viewer virt-viewer: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5: undefined symbol:…
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centos server with virtual machines parent cant connect out but vms work fine

I have a server centos 6.2, it has several vm's using https://virt-manager.org/ the vms work great, no problems. The problem I have is the parent server cant connect out using any protocol. DNS works fine, the vms use the bridged connection fine,…
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Error when adding network interface to VM on KVM host using virsh

I'm attempting to script adding a network interface to a centos 6 guest. I know the interface can be set up using the virt-manager gui but it's highly desirable for it to be added as part of an Ansible playbook using virsh attach-interface or…
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KVM/QEMU: "Storage parameter error: directory is not managed on the remote host" when importing an existing image from a mounted drive

A server I manage remotely has a KVM/QEMU image stored on a non-os, mounted drive /mnt/drive. When I use virt-manager to import the disk image, I get the following error: Storage parameter error. Cannot use storage '/mnt/drive/vms/vm1.img':…
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