From KVM

Contents 1 Howto's 1.1 General 1.2 Network related 1.3 Hardware related 1.3.1 USB 1.3.2 Ethernet 1.3.3 PCI 1.3.4 Sound 1.3.5 Display 1.3.6 virtio 1.3.7 vhost 1.3.8 cdrom 1.3.9 sharing files with the host 1.4 Operating System related 1.4.1 Gentoo 1.4.2 Ubuntu 1.4.3 Fedora 1.4.4 ArchLinux 1.4.5 BSD 1.4.6 Windows 1.4.7 Windows Vista 1.5 Scripting & Software 1.5.1 libvirt 1.6 Other

Howto's

General

• IBM Linux Blueprint: Quick Start Guide for installing and running KVM
• Getting KVM to run on your machine
• choose the right kvm & kernel version
• How To Migrate From Vmware To KVM
• Migrating User Mode Linux to Xen and KVM

Network related

• Setting guest network
• set up a network console

Hardware related

• How to assign devices with VT-d in KVM
• Enable VT-X on Mac Pro (Early 2008)

USB

• USB Host Device Assigned to Guest
• usb related

Ethernet

• ethernet_related

PCI

• hotadd pci devices

Sound

• Using Sound in the guest

Display

• Using qxl and SPICE in the guest

virtio

• boot from virtio block device
• use virtio_net interface in the guest (Debian)

vhost

• Using vhost

cdrom

• Changing disks in the cdrom drive

sharing files with the host

• Using 9p virtio to share files between host and guest

Operating System related

Gentoo

• Gentoo has good page about qemu/kvm in their wiki.
• KVM on Gentoo hosts

Ubuntu

• using-kvm-on-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon
• Setting up NAT with KVM in Ubuntu
• Running Guest Systems on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
• Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Fedora

• Fedora Virt Quick Start

ArchLinux

• Setting up KVM on ArchLinux
• Detailed QEMU Tutorial

BSD

• KVM on BSD, FreeBSD

Windows

• Information about guest drivers
• Install Windows 7
• Windows 7 as guest on Debian squeeze - with libvirt's virt-install recipe and virtio disk driver step-by-step instructions

Windows Vista

• Vista Networking Workaround

Scripting & Software

• Configuration Script for KVM - a complete management utility, configuration file format, and init script.
• Another script for KVM - Init scripts for kvm, using it with time scheduled start order (German)
• simple shell script to manage your virtual machine with bridged networking
• Hosting your VMs in a DMZ - a management and configuration script to assist with setting up a VM in a semi-secured demilitarized zone.
• Bare-metal installer with KVM
• Python scripts to manage qemu-kvm guest from cmdline - yet another qemu-kvm script

libvirt

• Running libvirt with KVM

Other

• HOWTO VMGL - OpenGL support for Linux guests