KVM

Links

• Homepage

Docs

• Creating a KVM Ubuntu VM using Debootstrap
• FAQ
• KVM on Debian

Hardware

Required CPU flags:

egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Management tools

GUI

virt-manager

Only manages connecting?

aqemu

looks promising

convirt

seems broken/gtk

CLI

vmdeboostrap

For quick debian installation. https://github.com/funollet/vmbootstrap

Cheatsheet

Install to drbd

kvm -name squeeze1 -usbdevice tablet -vnc :1 -hda /dev/drbd0 -cdrom /tmp/debiansqueeze.iso  -boot d -m 384

virt-install -d --name=kvmtest1 --ram 512 --disk path=/dev/drbd/by-res/kvmtest1,bus=virtio,cache=none --virt-type=kvm --network bridge=br0,model=virtio --vnc --accelerate --location=http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/

And then use -boot c to actually boot it