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2019-12-09

Messed around on Arch and Manjaro (both XFCE & KDE versions, maintaining packages and pamac.

Barely midnight, so, barely the 9th. Thinking of installing KVM, libvirt, virt-manager, etc. and leaving fucking VirtualBox behind. Fuck Oracle. The command I’m thinking of using is…

sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients virt-manager gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0

Yes, it will be Whonix getting me into KVM finally.

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Best be checking out the tools listed here too.

How to use KVM

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM

First did a Timeshift Backup to the External HDD…

Then made this command:

`sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils libguestfs-tools genisoimage virtinst libosinfo-bin virt-manager`

FUCK ME! That is a LOT of Packages!

Oh well. Doing it.

Also made these commands…

`sudo adduser $USER libvirt`
`sudo adduser $USER libvirt-qemu`

The two most Useful Links:

https://forums.whonix.org/c/kvm

How To Install QEMU and Virt-Manager | Linux KVM

`grep -o 'vmx\|svm' /proc/cpuinfo`

to check if virtualization is set up properly with the BIOS.

I’ll be Creating Virtual Machines in QEMU | Virt-manager | KVM next!

As for now, gonna… sudo reboot (which never works on my machine, but I forgot!) Anyway, LOVING libvirt-manager so far! Installed KDE Neon first, since I have an ISO and I know how crappy Neon works in VirtualBox.

DAYUM Fast! I like how QEMU/KVM works!

FUCK ME! Whonix is being a pain in the ass. Just extracting it using tar is taking forever! (100GB dynamically allotted)

Did THIS though.

Yeah, I snagged Whonix and moved both the Gateway & Workstation to /var/lib/libvirt/images/

with the following commands:

`sudo mv Whonix-Gateway*.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/Whonix-Gateway.qcow2`
 
 
`sudo mv Whonix-Workstation*.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/Whonix-Workstation.qcow2`

The network interfaces aren’t working, probably because of the .xml files being left behind when I moved those.

5 am though, so I’m going to bed!

But no, I did these commands first:

This Webpage at https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM#Download_and_Extract was invaluable. And I really oughtta look at This: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Post_Install_Advice too.

But, YAY! It worked! Gonna stay up now. It’s 6:30 a.m. Time for coffee…

Dicked around even more.

Fucked up the Manjaro Install in KVM somehow after upgrading…

Installed KDE Partition Manager and found out that, at least, the Whonix shite isn’t taking up 100GB of space in /var/lib/libvirt/images/, thank goodness; so that mvcommand instead of the cp shrink command, or whatever it was, anyway mv was correct and it is still dynamically allocated.