Hello, On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 03:33:09AM +0000, Victor Sudakov wrote: > So what's the package name for just "kvm" without the GUI tools? Because
For someone that wants to run a hypervisor in a non-newbie manner I'm afraid you don't seem to be that willing to do any of your own research. The package is still qemu-kvm (a virtual package that probably depends on qemu-system-x86 for you). By default that will install a ton of recommended packages that include all the GUI tools you probably object to, but that is just how Debian works [and necessarily how a general purpose binary Linux distribution has to work]. If you want the minimum amount of packages to be installed you can try installing without recommends, i.e. # apt --no-install-recommends install qemu-kvm which will dramatically reduce the number of packages, BUT: - you may miss some package that's really useful in most cases - installing without recommends is not a supported use case. - you'll probably still get some packages you will never use. This is all very basic Debian systems administration and so if you weren't aware of these things I question whether you would have an easy time trying to strip a Debian install of KVM down to the bare minimum instead of going the easier route of just doing what there are thousands of guides out there for. If the idea of the installation of binary package dependencies that you never use massively offends you I would suggest that Debian is not an ideal match for you, and you may be better off going with Gentoo or Arch or something. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
