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
|$ 
 

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