Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives (Solved)

2017-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all I finally got kvm up and running with Debian 9 installed. Per Bob Weber, I seem to have missed one of about 5 must have packages. Once up, I had the problem of getting my network printer to work. Cups must be installed and to get the proper drivers for my printer, I needed to install

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/18/17 4:08 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > I really appreciate all of you quick responses. > > For some unknown reason, when I searched the  Debian database virt came up > empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. > > The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 18-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > I really appreciate all of you quick responses. > > For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up > empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. > > The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
I really appreciate all of you quick responses. For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-manager, I did get the following error:

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 17-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > Sorry bob but the debian 9 archives doesn't include libvirtd or anything > equivalent. I have been trying to use virt-manager but have gotten a bit > confused. The screen shot is attached. I have two hard drives. One is a 160 > Gb boot drive called bootdisk and

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/17/17, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >> >> Most debian installs work easily with a 20 or 20 GB virtual drive. You >> create >> the file necessary with a command like this: >> >> qemu-img create -f qcow2 /home/img/Mymachine/drive.img

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/08/17 13:12, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >> Looks like the packages >> to get you started are libvirt-daemon-system and virt-manager. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> ...bob >> >> >> > Sorry bob but the debian 9 archives doesn't include libvirtd or > anything

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Phil Wyett
On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 18:12 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: > > On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk > > drive by qemu.  I use Virtual Machine Manager (along with libvirtd) which >

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk drive by qemu. I use Virtual Machine Manager (along with libvirtd) which can do all the hard stuff for you. I usually make my own

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Have you passed the appropriate options to QEMU? You *must* use “-drive file=...”. For example “-drive file=/dev/sda”. Read the QEMU manual for details. QEMU does not gives the the guest is access to host devices by default; that would be a very high security risk. On 17/08/17 12:06, Gary Roach

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems > with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 17-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems > with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very

kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, Debian 9 (Stretch) system KDE Desktop MSI970A-G43 motherboard AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very messy project (Elmer fem) and want things