About & Why ?
KVM [Kernel-based Virtual Machine] is the best technology used these days for virtualization. Most of the Server managers use KVM in their virtualization. pretty much the world runs on Virtualization.
KVM hypervisor enables full virtualization capabilities. It gives each VM a standard service of the physical system, including the Virtual Basic Input Output System (Bios) and virtual hardware like network cards, processors, memory, and much more. As a result, every VM completely mimics a physical machine also, As part of the Linux kernel source code, KVM benefits from rigorous development and testing processes, as well as continuous security patching.
Configuring KVM for Linux
Checking Virtualization Support for your hardware
egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
If the above command returns a value of 0 in your machine, your processor cannot run KVM.
Note : If the output is zero then go to bios settings and enable VT-x (Virtualization Technology Extension) for Intel processor and AMD-V for AMD processor.
grep -E --color '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
Using this command you will get information about your CPU [Intel or AMD] If the red color output text is VMX then it is Intel whereas SVM means AMD.
Install QEMU / KVM & Libvirt packages Debian
sudo apt install qemu-kvm qemu-utils python3 python3-pip libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon virt-manager spice-vdagent
Start & Enable KVM service
sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd
Check Libvirtd service is started
sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service
Reboot !
If you want you can configure VIRSH [VIRSH is a command to directly interact with our VMs from terminal].
Install QEMU / KVM & Libvirt packages Arch
sudo pacman -S qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-x86-firmware libvirt bridge-utils virt-manager
Refer wiki :
Whonix
| QEMU
| libvirt
| libvirt clients
Set user Group (Arch/Debian)
Add user to libvirt Group:
sudo adduser $USER libvirt
Add user to libvirt-qemu
sudo adduser $USER libvirt-qemu
Systemctl Service libvirtd (Arch)
Start the libvirtd.service service:
sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
Enable libvirt.service service at boot:
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service
Start virt-manager:
virt-manager
Reboot !
checkout win 10 install in KVM
quick note : operating system may end up writing sensitive information in RAM to swap space on your disk, so using a virtual machine for anonymity is not always the best idea!
Credits: M.M