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What is the difference and relationship between kvm, virt-manager, qemu and libvirt?

I investigated this topic and here are my conlusions (but still I have questions, and please correct me if I made any mistake in my conlusion): VMWare: VMWare developed its VM Hypervisor SW in 1999, but it was proprietory. QEMU: 4 years later after…
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No Auto Resize with SPICE and virt-manager

I've setup a VM that works great except for the auto resize functionality which seems to be inconsistent. I've got it randomly working a few times but it also randomly stops working. It's currently not working and I'm not sure what I need to do to…
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Configure FirewallD to allow bridged virtual machine network access

I have a Windows guest running on a virt-manager QEMU/KVM virtual machine. My primary NIC eno1 is in a bridge br1 which is configured with my host IP address configuration. This VM is connected to said bridge. My host firewall is in its default…
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Hiding Virtual machine status from guest operating system

Host OS: Fedora Guest OS: Windows 10 Virtualization: KVM So the idea is to run a Windows 10 host machine that is unaware that it is a virtual machine. So when I open the task manager on the guest windows machine, and go under performace tab that the…
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Create "linked clone" or layered shared disks with QEMU

Does QEMU support a feature like VMware's "linked clone"? What I'm trying to accomplish: I'm setting up a test environment with a handful of VMs, that are all nearly identical. However, a fresh Windows install takes over 20 GiB, which would be…
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What are the differences between sound devices in qemu shown by virt-manager?

I am trying to use qemu/kvm via virt-managet. I want to use Windows 10 guest in a Linux host. When I add sound device, there are several models to choose from: ac97 es1370 ich6 ich9 pcspk sb16 How do they differ? Any difference in…
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What does it mean open mode in Virt-Manager?

Virt-Manager offers a network "open mode". Could you tell me what does it mean? For example: I use Fedora 26 with virt-manager 1.4.2
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libvirt / KVM/QEMU - Networks: What does "Open Network" do?

When setting up a network with libvirt & virt-manager, there is an option to choose "Open Network" as the "Network Mode" when forwarding traffic to a physical network. What does "Open Network" mean / do? I thought it might be the same as an isolated…
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Use virt-manager on windows with cygwin

I current am trying to connect to a hyper visor server with virt-manager on a windows computer. The host is currently setup to run only as a TTY base server. And from my research, I've only read to use PuTTY and Xming and have virt-manager to run…
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Possible to move a guest OS on VirtManager (Linux) to Windows?

For VirtualBox or VMware Workstation,one could copy the guest OS data directory to another computer and run it there. For example, I could create a guest OS on Linux, and then copy the guest data directory to a Windows computer and run it there. Is…
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Virt manager error: unable to find any master var store for loader

I followed the guide here https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM but I got an error after importing the VM into virt-manager. Specifically, I get the error 'unable to find any master var store for loader' I checked that the file exists and redownloaded…
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Bitlocker on KVM/QEMU/virt-manager Windows guest using TPM passthrough

I have a dual boot installation on my Lenovo T480s: Windows 10 and Fedora 33. As I prefer working on Linux but need to have quick access to some Windows exclusive programs, I've configured QEMU (in virt-manager) to boot Windows from a physical…
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How can I use macvtap for bridging to home wifi network?

I have Ubuntu 16 host machine with kvm/libvirt virtual machines. How can I bridge the virtual machines to my host's connected wifi network (my home wifi network)? I see people say something about macvtap since the names of interfaces in Ubuntu 16…
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Two mouse cursors when using virt-manager

I created a VM (host: Fedora 25, guest: LUbuntu 16.10) using virt-manager. When I start it and click on the window, I see two cursors: one host cursor and another guest cursor: The movement of the guest cursor is restricted by the host cursor…
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Error in running (libvirt) virt-manager 1.3.2

On Ubuntu 14.04 I installed default packages for Libvirt and Virt-manager. But it does not show support for Debian "Jessie". So I downloaded virt-manager from its Home page. I followed the INSTALL notes and issued the command: python setup.py…
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