i want to summarize setting up simple KVM on ubuntu 11.04 and it's
easy enough to find numerous docs out there that discuss this, but all
of them seem to be a touch out-of-date in places.

for instance, some refer to the "kvm" package even though that
package is simply a transitional package for the newer qemu-kvm. not
a big deal, but truly current documentation should refer to qemu-kvm.

another example would be any reference to the ubuntu-vm-builder
package for creating VMs. if you read the man page for
ubuntu-vm-builder, it's now just a wrapper for the vmbuilder command
from the python-vm-builder package.

there's a fairly good writeup here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-11.04

but author falko timme instructs the reader to install, among other
things, the kvm-pxe package, which is fine *if* you need that
functionality. as a minimalist, i like to keep the number of
installed packages short and include only those that are absolutely
essential for the task at hand.

granted, a lot of this is pedantry, but it would be nice to have a
write-up that incorporates only the latest, actual packages. if one
doesn't exist, i'll just dig thru what's there and throw something
together myself.

rday

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I have used KVM but I use virt-manager with it with Ubuntu.
That way things become easier rathern than going the virsh way.
Check this one
http://howtoforge.net/virtualization-with-kvm-on-a-fedora-12-server-p2
the steps should not be much different than this.


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> *i want to summarize setting up simple KVM on ubuntu 11.04 and it's
> easy enough to find numerous docs out there that discuss this, but all
> of them seem to be a touch out-of-date in places.
>
> *for instance, some refer to the "kvm" package even though that
> package is simply a transitional package for the newer qemu-kvm. *not
> a big deal, but truly current documentation should refer to qemu-kvm.
>
> *another example would be any reference to the ubuntu-vm-builder
> package for creating VMs. *if you read the man page for
> ubuntu-vm-builder, it's now just a wrapper for the vmbuilder command
> from the python-vm-builder package.
>
> *there's a fairly good writeup here:
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-11.04
>
> but author falko timme instructs the reader to install, among other
> things, the kvm-pxe package, which is fine *if* you need that
> functionality. *as a minimalist, i like to keep the number of
> installed packages short and include only those that are absolutely
> essential for the task at hand.
>
> *granted, a lot of this is pedantry, but it would be nice to have a
> write-up that incorporates only the latest, actual packages. *if one
> doesn't exist, i'll just dig thru what's there and throw something
> together myself.
>
> rday
>
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