Install KVM in an Ubuntu Server

• Install KVM in an Ubuntu Server following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation instructions:

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virtinst && sudo adduser `id -un` libvirt && sudo adduser `id -un` kvm && virsh list --all

And create your fist guest machine from command line using virt-install python script.

virt-install --virt-type kvm --name buster-amd64 --memory 1G --cdrom ~/iso/Debian/debian-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso --disk size=10G --os-variant debian10

See also

• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM