Tried following a couple of guides a while ago to set up QEMU/KVM (virt-manager) on my atomic desktop (kinoite) but nothing seems to work. I’d like to know what is the most recommended and secure method for my setup and could someone help me in this endeavor?
Did you try with Flatpaks? I remember installing GNOME Boxes on my Silverblue machine some time ago, and it worked with no additional package layering needed.
I’m on kinoite though, would this work?
There shouldn’t be any difference, except for the look and feel of a GNOME app on KDE Plasma.
Tried installing debian on Boxes but I got an error message saying “No KVM!”
In the next couple of days I will be able to test on a Silverblue bare-metal installation if it is (still) working. Either it will work, which would mean that Silverblue provides some packages in the base install that Kinoite doesn’t, or it won’t work, and I was wrong all along.
Check BIOS/UEFI settings and make sure virtualization support VT-x (Intel) / AMD-V (AMD) is enabled.
I’m in the BIOS menu right now and can’t find any setting related to virtualization, can you be more specific?
Probably not - you’ve not stated which manufacturer or BIOS you’re running, and as we can’t see what you’re seeing…
My bad.
Vendor: Lenovo
Version: HACN46WW
RELEASE DATE: 11/14/2024
I ran Iscpu | grep -i virtualization and it shows that virtualization is indeed enabled I think, it returned AMD-V.
Just confirmed from the BIOS settings, it’s enabled.
Just to confirm that GNOME Boxes installed from Flathub is indeed working on Silverblue.
I have it installed as flatpak as well. I’ve an inkling that the issue is due to missing packages related to virtualization. Existing layered packages are libvirt and qemu-kvm, though I’m unsure if Boxes is supposed to work without layering anything.
I’m not sure about that. At least I have no packages layered, and I expect it wouldn’t be of any use for Flatpaks.
GNOME boxes should work as is on Silverblue without any package layered. If it does not then the issue is somewhere else, either at the hardware level on system configuration.
Can you give us:
grep -E '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
(from https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/virtualization-getting-started/)
and
ls -alh /dev/kvm
In the search bar in Dolphin type kvm .
Here with me the first item which pops up is Virtual Machine Manager. This works, I have used it before, but if I remember correctly it does not work out of the box. You need to become member of a group, which one I don’t know but the program will tell you, you need to reboot afterwards but I think that was it.