virtualization

Networking in QEMU I’ve recently had a need to test UEFI booting for a disk image. I stumbled upon OVMF, a bios that will handle UEFI booting. It works pretty well but doesn’t remember its config sometimes. But that’s not why I’m writing this. In my disk image I need […]

Networking with QEMU and KVM speedup

Mon April 06, 2015 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / virtualization tagged BIOS / Fedora / Kernel-based Virtual Machine / kvm / libvirtd / qemu / ssh port / TUN/TAP / Unified Extensible Firmware Interface / virtualization

I’ve been working on building custom Debian and Ubuntu distributions for use under VirtualBox. One advantage that both have over Fedora is debootstrap. This tool allows you to create a default rootfs from pre-compiled packages inside a directory. You can then chroot into that directory to install the kernel image, […]

Debian/Ubuntu debootstrap images for VirtualBox

Fri February 27, 2015 in Fedora / Linux / Software Development / Ubuntu / virtualization tagged bootloader / Chroot / debian / debootstrap / Dpkg / Fedora / grub / kernel / kernel modules / kvm / Linux / qemu / raw disk image / ubuntu / VirtualBox / Xen

I’m wondering if the recent Sourceforge attack has anything to do with RPMFusion’s download1 host not responding. I did some upgrades at work this week and had problems with it and yesterday I upgraded a media client at home and found Mauriat Miranda’s links to configure RPMFusion timing out. I […]

RPMFusion’s “download1” not responding?

Sun January 30, 2011 in Fedora / Linux / Open Source / virtualization / x86-64 (updated 4831 days ago)

I'm working with libvirtd/virt-manager/qemu at work. I have a bunch of F11 systems installed and working just fine. Today I tried one of the extra lab boxes, same OS config, but when I tried to use the virt-* commands I'd get an error: mjhammel(tty0)$ sudo virsh –connect qemu:///system error: failed […]