[Discuss] Virt-Manager

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

I uploaded an image of it running in my KVM window.

The Video QXL driver seems like its weird. Select VirtIO instead by
clicking the "Customize installation configuration" box before you create
the VM.

Also, don't use generic, use fedora31 or debian 10 as the base.

> You may be interested to know that the LXQt PCLOS image contains
> download managers for VIrtual Box and Libre Office. I think it has one
> or two others as well.
>
> Generic Linux 2020, in fact, *none* of the Generlc entries successfully
> worked once I added in the USB hardware to create the vm. Without the
> USB hardware, it originally installed fine. But AFAIK, you can't add the
> USB hardware*after the fact* with virt-manager. So when recreating the
> vm with USB afterwards, that's when I had the problems.
>
>
> On 10/25/21 15:51, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> You have to download Virtiualbox from virtualbox.org
>> <http://virtualbox.org>.
>> I just installed pclinuxos kde using virt-manager successfully
>> First, I set it as "Generic Linux 2020"
>> I booted into the LiveCD. Once that came up, I then installed PCLINUXOS.
>> After it installed, I shut down the LiveCD vm and booted pclinuxos. It
>> came up fine, and networking was working.
>> I'm not sure what issues that the OP has, but this is what worked for
>> me.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:20 PM Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:
>>
>>     Debian does not provide VirtualBox. They only offer virt-manager and
>>     Gnome Boxes.
>>
>>     The system basically wants to install most (if not all) of the same
>>     dependencies for Gnome Boxes, that it did for virt-manager. When I
>>     was
>>     using Fedora, Jerry told me about Gnome Boxes and I found it very
>>     easy
>>     to use. But given my experience with virt-manager, I would expect
>> the
>>     same issues if I tried Gnome Boxes.
>>
>>     I went with PCLOS' Community LXQt image because I'm used to that
>>     desktop
>>     and it's lightweight, wasn't expecting any issues
>>     running/installing it
>>     in a VM.
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 10/25/21 14:55, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>>     > As an alternative I use Virtualbox at home.  Works great.  Zero
>>     complaints.  I use Vagrant on occasion to control programmatically.
>>     >
>>     > I started with Virtualbox years ago as it supported older CPUs. 
>>     I think somebody on this list turned me on to it.
>>     >
>>     > Hope that helps.
>>     >
>>     > Eric C
>>     >
>>     > Chadbourne.Consulting
>>     >
>>     >> On Oct 25, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> After realizing that I forgot to add the relevant USB hardware
>>     to the VM, I deleted it, as they could be not added after the fact.
>>     >>
>>     >> Upon attempting to recreate it with the USB hardware added in,
>>     all attempts were unsuccessful. virt-manager wants the name of the
>>     distro during the creation of the VM. Since the name of the distro
>>     (PCLinuxOS) was not in the database, I tried all four of the
>>     'Generic' entries, the latest Mandriva (EOL) entry (2011) since
>>     the distro was originally based on Mandriva), Clear Linux, Arch
>>     Linux and finally Ubuntu.
>>     >>
>>     >> None of these would boot the image into a usable live desktop
>>     to which the OS could then be installed. The image either crashed
>>     within the VM, it froze on the screen to select the keyboard, or
>>     IF the desktop appeared, once a second Network Manager applet icon
>>     appeared, the video server crashes and reboots the desktop,
>>     repeatedly. The only way to exit was to use virt-manager's Force
>>     Off option.
>>     >>
>>     >> So I have reached the conclusion, that, in a home environment,
>>     a VM serves no useful purpose and is quite frankly, a waste of
>>     time, IMHO.
>>
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