by Jason L Froebe on March 10, 2013, 2 comments
You can run KVM on just about any modern Linux distribution provided that your host is capable of providing virtualization. The folks over at HowtoForge go through the steps for Ubuntu 12.10. What you will need for the KVM virtual machine: Ubuntu Server 6.06.2 for Intel x86 Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 esd 6 for Linux [...]
by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2013, 5 comments
UPDATE: Fixed and signed qxl video drivers Hi all, Yesterday I promised to post how I was able to get sound working with KVM / libvirt and the Spice client with Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. Here you go First, get your spice client set up wherever you are going to run virt-manager. On the [...]
by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2013, no comments
Unfortunately, when you install the Spice client on Ubuntu 12.x, it doesn’t include everything you need to get it to work sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install spice-client-gtk qemu-kvm-spice python-spice-client-gtk If you’re up to date on your 12.10 patches, you shouldn’t need to modify the libvirt-qemu file for Apparmor but if you have troubles, add [...]
by Jason L Froebe on February 9, 2013, 2 comments
Finally got sound working in a Windows 7 64bit KVM virtual machine with Spice. There are a few conditions for it to work: ICH6 audio Spice guest drivers installed NOT VNC QXL video QXL driver (64bit) Since I’m using Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit, I had to build and digitally sign the driver. Not difficult at [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 28, 2011, no comments
For those of you that are thinking about using using libvirt/kvm on Linux… here is a discussion on proposed best practices