This article will describe installing KVM.
Table of Contents
1 Install qemu-kvm and libvirt
Install qemu-kvm package and some packages for virtual machine operation.
$ sudo apt install -y qemu-kvm libvirt0 libvirt-bin virt-manager bridge-utils
Register libvirt-bin to systemd.
$ sudo systemctl enable libvirt-bin
2 Create bridge
The bridge interface is needed for accessing virtual machine via network from other machine. Change ens3 to your network interface name. Reboot system after setting.
$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports ens3
bridge_stp off
bridge_maxwait 0
$ sudo reboot
3 libvirtd group
The user in libvirtd group can run libvirt command without sudo.
$ sudo gpasswd libvirtd -a ${USER}
$ sudo reboot