Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 1:01 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > What I remember doing was re-configuring the (primary) network interface > so that it came up without an IP address and was added as a member to a > newly created bridge. As part of that I moved the system's IP > address(es) from the

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/2/22 12:14 AM, John Covici wrote: OK, I fixed it, the group name was wrong when I tried the last time, I had libvirtd and its only libvirt and that seems to have fixed things. Thank you for the clarifying follow up. Here's hoping you same someone else time in the future. :-) On

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 9:59 AM John Covici wrote: > OK, more progress and a few more questions. > > In the virt-manager, I could not figure out how to add disk storage to > the vm. I have a partition I can use for the disk storage -- is this > different from the virtual machine image? > > Of

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-02 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:31:12 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/1/22 11:05 PM, John Covici wrote: > > Well, I foujnd out something. If I go to the file menu, I can > > add the connection manually and it works, > > That sounds familiar. > > > but I wonder why I have to do that? > > Because

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:31:12 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/1/22 11:05 PM, John Covici wrote: > > Well, I foujnd out something. If I go to the file menu, I can > > add the connection manually and it works, > > That sounds familiar. > > > but I wonder why I have to do that? > > Because

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 11:05 PM, John Covici wrote: Well, I foujnd out something. If I go to the file menu, I can add the connection manually and it works, That sounds familiar. but I wonder why I have to do that? Because the KVM Virtual Manager is designed such that it can administer KVM / libvirt /

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
On Sat, 01 Jan 2022 23:55:45 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/1/22 1:19 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > In my experience it often takes either a logout/in or a reboot > > Ya > > Depending on what you actually /need/ to use the new group for > you can probably ssh to localhost or possibly use

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
On Sat, 01 Jan 2022 23:55:45 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/1/22 1:19 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > In my experience it often takes either a logout/in or a reboot > > Ya > > Depending on what you actually /need/ to use the new group for > you can probably ssh to localhost or possibly use

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 10:07 PM, John Covici wrote: Maybe I have to log out of everything with my user name even though most of the logins are to virtual consoles? You typically need to log out of X11 sessions and log back in for them to see the new groups. But you say "virtual consoles", which tells me

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
On Sat, 01 Jan 2022 23:52:18 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/1/22 6:04 PM, John Covici wrote: > > It more seems to have to do something with the uri -- libvertd is > > certainly running, and I added myself to the kvm group, but still get > > qem/kvm not connected. > > Run `id` as your

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 1:19 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: In my experience it often takes either a logout/in or a reboot Ya Depending on what you actually /need/ to use the new group for you can probably ssh to localhost or possibly use the `newgrp` command go switch your primary group to the group that

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 6:04 PM, John Covici wrote: It more seems to have to do something with the uri -- libvertd is certainly running, and I added myself to the kvm group, but still get qem/kvm not connected. Run `id` as your current user and make sure that it's showing the kvm & libvirt groups. --

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
It more seems to have to do something with the uri -- libvertd is certainly running, and I added myself to the kvm group, but still get qem/kvm not connected. On Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:19:57 -0500, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 12:28 PM Grant Taylor > wrote: > > > > On 1/1/22

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 12:28 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/1/22 12:08 PM, John Covici wrote: > > OK, I made some progress -- I emerged qemu/kvm packages including > > libvirtd and virt-manager came along. Now, when I start virt-manager, > > it complains the qqemu/kvm not connected. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 12:08 PM, John Covici wrote: OK, I made some progress -- I emerged qemu/kvm packages including libvirtd and virt-manager came along. Now, when I start virt-manager, it complains the qqemu/kvm not connected. I am running virt-manager as my regular user. Make sure that libvirtd is

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:50:43 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 12/31/21 8:12 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > ++ > > +++ to KVM / libvirt / VirtManager (GUI) > > > This is just a front-end to libvirt and kvm, so you're building > > entirely on solid technologies, and anything you set up with > > the

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread John Covici
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:12:05 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:40 AM Petric Frank wrote: > > > > Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2021, 15:31:43 CET schrieb Yixun Lan: > > > On 07:33 Fri 31 Dec , John Covici wrote: > > > > Hi. I am looking for some guidance on installing

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/31/21 8:12 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: ++ +++ to KVM / libvirt / VirtManager (GUI) This is just a front-end to libvirt and kvm, so you're building entirely on solid technologies, and anything you set up with the GUI can be edited or run or otherwise managed from the command line, and

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:40 AM Petric Frank wrote: > > Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2021, 15:31:43 CET schrieb Yixun Lan: > > On 07:33 Fri 31 Dec , John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. I am looking for some guidance on installing virtual machines > > > under gentoo. I have a 5.10.82 kernel and I would

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Petric Frank
Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2021, 15:31:43 CET schrieb Yixun Lan: > On 07:33 Fri 31 Dec , John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I am looking for some guidance on installing virtual machines > > under gentoo. I have a 5.10.82 kernel and I would like to use kvm if > > possible to do this. I have seen lots

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Yixun Lan
On 07:33 Fri 31 Dec , John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am looking for some guidance on installing virtual machines > under gentoo. I have a 5.10.82 kernel and I would like to use kvm if > possible to do this. I have seen lots of instructions for installing > vms using virtualbox but not much

[gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread John Covici
Hi. I am looking for some guidance on installing virtual machines under gentoo. I have a 5.10.82 kernel and I would like to use kvm if possible to do this. I have seen lots of instructions for installing vms using virtualbox but not much else. I have a gentoo system with enough memory to run