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QEMU Virt Manager Setup

Dave10 edited this page Feb 2, 2022 · 2 revisions

Install following packages

sudo pacman -S --needed qemu virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq dmidecode vde2 bridge-utils openbsd-netcat

Enable normal user account to use KVM

Add your user to the libvirt group

sudo usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami)

Start and enable the libvirtd service

sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service

Check the status of the service, there shouldn't be any errors

sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service

Network Setup

See if the network is active

sudo virsh net-list --all

If it's inactive, start the network

sudo virsh net-start default

Start the network on boot

sudo virsh net-autostart default