{"id":435,"date":"2009-07-27T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-07-28T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:59:00","slug":"fedora-11-and-virtualization-kvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/fedora-11-and-virtualization-kvm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 11 and Virtualization (KVM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently upgraded another computer from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11, and I&#8217;ve decided to try the built-in [KVM](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine) (i.e. Applications -> System Tools -> [Virtual Machine Manager](http:\/\/virt-manager.et.redhat.com\/)). I wanted a virtual machine that had bridged mode networking, but it wasn&#8217;t available by default. To get it as an option, I disabled SELinux (not sure if it was necessary), followed [some special instructions](http:\/\/wiki.libvirt.org\/page\/Networking#Fedora.2FRHEL_Bridging) to setup a bridged interface, and restarted my network and libvirtd.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got a working guest OS inside of KVM, and I like it. The guest OS feels snappy and responsive.<\/p>\n<p>Update: KVM and the accompanying tools aren&#8217;t as mature as VirtualBox or VMWare. E.g. I didn&#8217;t see how to get my USB flash drive to be recognized by a KVM guest OS. At one point, I tried to use VirtualBox at the same time as KVM. VirtualBox told me I needed to disable the KVM kernel module before using VirtualBox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently upgraded another computer from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11, and I&#8217;ve decided to try the built-in [KVM](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine) (i.e. Applications -> System Tools -> [Virtual Machine Manager](http:\/\/virt-manager.et.redhat.com\/)). I wanted a virtual machine that had bridged mode networking, but it wasn&#8217;t available by default. To get it as an option, I disabled SELinux (not sure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/fedora-11-and-virtualization-kvm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fedora 11 and Virtualization (KVM)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}