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INSTALL QEMU/KVM ON ARCH

sudo pacman -S qemu-full virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq bridge-utils libguestfs ebtables vde2 openbsd-netcat

UNCOMMENT THIS VALUES**

sudo micro /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

unix_sock_rw_perms = "0777"

ADD USER TO libvirt GROUP

sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER

ENABLE SERVICE

systemctl enable libvirtd.service

START SERVICE

systemctl start libvirtd.service

CHECK THE STATUS

systemctl status libvirtd.service

START THE APPLICATION

SOURCE: https://linuxways.net/arch/install-kvm-arch-linux/

INSTALL QEMU/KVM ON FEDORA

CHECK IF VIRTUALIZATION EXISTS

lscpu | grep Virtualization

AMD: Virtualization: AMD-V INTEL Virtualization: VT-x

sudo dnf install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-install bridge-utils virt-manager libvirt-devel virt-top libguestfs-tools guestfs-tools
sudo systemctl start libvirtd
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
sudo systemctl status libvirtd
sudo micro /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

UNCOMMENT THIS VALUES**

sudo micro /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

unix_sock_rw_perms = "0777"

sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)
sudo systemctl start libvirtd
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
systemctl status libvirtd

TLDR

KVM and QEMU are two different virtualization technologies, one has a type 1 hypervisor and the other has a type 2 hypervisor. KVM runs directly on hardware, whereas QEMU runs on top of the operating system. QEMU uses KVM as a backend to access hardware resources and use the software emulation to visualize the hardware.


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