On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:53:26PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 02:39:43 +0000 Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > Please don't just say "kvm". I've tried installing different > > combinations of "qemu-kvm", "virt-manager" etc and they all depend on > > dozens of GUI tools. > > I think the problem that you are running into with qemu-kvm is that > while the package doesn't "require" GUI tools, they do "recommend" them. > If you turn off "install-recommends" in your apt config, you may find > that you can install it without the GUI tools. That might indeed be a solution to the original "problem".
> "virt-manager", on the other hand, appears to be fundamentally a GUI tool. Original poster might be looking for `virsh`. |$ man virsh | head |VIRSH(1) Virtualization Support VIRSH(1) | |NAME | virsh - management user interface | |SYNOPSIS | virsh [OPTION]... [COMMAND_STRING] | | virsh [OPTION]... COMMAND [ARG]... | |$ dpkg -S virsh |libvirt-clients: /usr/bin/virsh |libvirt-clients: /usr/share/man/man1/virsh.1.gz |libvirt-clients: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virsh |$ Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse