26. Creating KVM Virtual Machines using Cockpit and virt-manager
KVM-based virtual machines can easily be configured on Ubuntu using either the virt-install command-line tool, the virt-manager GUI tool or the Virtual Machines module of the Cockpit web console. For the purposes of this chapter we will use Cockpit and the virt-manager tool to install a Fedora distribution as a KVM guest on an Ubuntu host.
The command-line approach to virtual machine creation will be covered in the next chapter entitled “Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh”.
26.1 Installing the Cockpit Virtual Machines Module
By default, the virtual machines module may not be included in a standard Cockpit installation. Assuming that Cockpit is installed ...
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