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The virt-manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt

Virt-manager application is which uses libvirt APIs to create, manage and use Virtual machines.

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Any way to release focus on a KVM guest in virt-manager without having to click Ctrl_L + Alt_L?

Is there a way to move my mouse in and out of a KVM guest in virt-manager without having to click to gain focus of the window and release focus by pressing Ctrl_L+ Alt_L? BACKGROUND I typically connect from a Fedora 14 system using virt-manager to…
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How do you autostart a KVM VM with virt-manager?

I have some VMs that I need to be started when the host system is started. How do I set them to autostart?
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Getting windows virtio mounted/installed for KVM

There might be an easy answer to this. I have exhausted my search on google for a solution. Here's my problem. I need to get Windows working on a KVM vps with virtualizor CP. As I get into windows installation in VNC, there's the mandatory driver…
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virt-manager Spice copy paste doesn't work

I have a Debian 9 KVM host runs on a dedicated server. I use virt-manager on my laptop (Ubuntu 16.04) to connect it remotely. Everything works quite well except copy/paste actions between VM's SPICE display(the one embedded in virt-manager) and my…
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probing EDD boot message stays for ten minutes on centos 6.6

I am trying to bring up a Centos 6.6 qcow2 image on my virt-manager. Booting from Hard disk.... Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok The guest machine stays with the above message for near ten minutes. How can i disable EDD probing in the qcow2…
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Virtmanager connection via custom SSH command?

I'd like to use virt-manager to manage my libvirt/kvm virtual machines running on a remote host, but the method I use to ssh into that host it a bit complicated. I need to use custom ports along with agent forwarding with multiple hops. For…
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Installing a Windows guest with virtio in a single step (Debian)

I am trying to create a Windows 7 (32bits) with virtio disk and network in a single step using virt-manager. I've been trying to follow the step-by-step procedure here. However there is no such thing as the following on Debian: # yum install…
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virt-manager doesn't show list of local KVMs but virsh does

When I open virt-manager GUI it doesn't show list of KVMs but virsh does. how can fix it?
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Virt-manager: unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon

I'm having a bit of trouble connecting to my virtual machine host, which is an Ubuntu server running KVM/Libvirt. I can connect to the server using an Ubuntu client and I can connect via virsh on a Fedora 16 client. Unfortunately, connecting via…
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virt-manager vm console requires password

I have just started learning foreman. I added a KVM host to the foreman as a compute resource. I can now provision VMs from foreman now but I cannot view the console of the VMs that are provisioned from foreman as I am prompted for a password. I…
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virt-manager connect to kvm w/o password

I want to connect my KVM host with virt-manager, but I use pub key for authentication, and I cant skip the openssh-password popup. Is it possible to log in without a password? (i apologize for my bad english)
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Load QEMU Firmware Configuration Device in virt-manager?

Is there a way to load fw_cfg file in virt-manager (v1.4.1)? On the plain QEMU command line I can do it like so: -fw_cfg name=opt/com.coreos/config,file=some/file.json I cannot find equivalent option in the virt-manager.
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virt-manager: Partioning the available memory

I have a hypervisor which uses kvm and virt-manager to handle the virtual machines. The hypervisor has 6GByte of memory. If I add a new virtual machine I don't know how much memory is still free. At least the virt-manager dialog does not show…
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How to explain the machine type concept in the virtualization?

When I was under Debian Wheezy, virt-manager created virtual machines with the "pc-0.12" machine type. Since I am under Debian Jessie, virt-manager creates virtual machines with "pc-i440fx-2.1" machine type. How does virt-manager (or libvirt, or…
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Is it useful to deploy OpenStack to a single node?

Due to several limitations and only few and expensive offers of Windows-based dedicated servers, I thought about renting a Linux server instead and running even multiple VMs on that server. I thought about using KVM, however it is not trivial to set…
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