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Virt-Manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines, based on libvirt.

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Use virt-manager to share files between Linux host and Windows guest?

Is it possible to use "Filesystem Passthrough" virtual hardware option inside virt-manager to share a folder on my Linux host with my Windows guest? I found some tutorials for how to do this with a Linux guest, but when I try this with my Windows…
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Where does virt-manager store config files?

I checked ~/.libvirt* and ~/.config/libvirt*, non of them seem to contain config file of created VM, where is the config stored? I'm not running virt-manager as root user.
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virt-manager copy paste functionality to the vm

Anyone know how to get Virtual Manager to install copy-paste functionality to the Virtual Machine?
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How can I store files in the mounted shared folder?

I am running a Fedora Workstation virtual machine on an Ubuntu host. I created a folder /home/cl/share in the guest and mounted the shared folder /media/cl/system/virtual/share as root following the instructions from linux-kvm : mount -t 9p -o…
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virt-manager - Change firmware AFTER installation

virt-manager uses BIOS as the default option for firmware. There is an option to change this to UEFI just before installation, after the volume is set up. However, after installation, the dropdown menu for changing the firmware disappears. The…
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What commands in virsh corresponds to "Force Off" button in virt-manager?

I'm trying to find the corresponding command to the buttons in virt-manager, I read about virsh help domain and I found start, shutdown and reset etc. But the one for Force Off is missing. Anyone know what that is?
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Error creating snapshot: Operation not supported: internal snapshots of a VM with pflash based firmware are not supported

I'm using Arch Linux, both host and guest. For UEFI boot, I've installed edk2-ovmf and made the guest use the firmware /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd. I want to create snapshots of my VM but am getting the error: Error creating snapshot:…
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Virtual Machine Manager wants to inhibit shortcuts - again and again - on Wayland

I've recently reinstalled my workstation with Fedora 27, and since doing so, virt-manager has been doing one strange thing. Every time I open a VM console and then move the mouse into the window, a dialog appears asking me: Virtual Machine Manager…
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Setting umask of libvirt/virt-manager for proper permissions in a directory shared by host and guest

I'm attempting to create a directory that is fully available to both the host and guest systems of a virt-manager/libvirt/QEMU/KVM virtual machine, with read, write and execute permissions for non-root users of both systems. Both OSes are Debian -…
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Creating VM's using kvm. Error: Unit libvirtd.service could not be found?

TLDR; On Ubuntu 20.04.1, I am trying to run VM's using KVM. After installing the required packages, I still get below error: sudo systemctl status libvirtd Unit libvirtd.service could not be found. The below is what I have done - a) check kvm…
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Changing libvirt emulator: Permission denied

I'm trying to use a binary of Qemu that I compiled using this tutorial, since the version of Qemu that's packaged with my OS, Debian, doesn't seem to support OpenGL acceleration with Spice. After a successful compilation, I tried to set the…
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Using virsh to control VMs created in virt-manager

here's a question for you that's been driving me round the bend. I've managed to find plenty of resource from folk that want to do the opposite from me i.e see a machine they created using virsh in virt-manager. However, I have a couple of VMs that…
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Virtualization (KVM) and excessive cached RAM

I've set up a virtual machine through KVM-libvirt (virt-manager) with Windows 10 on it and I'm getting an odd behavior on the host side. I'm running a 64bit Arch host with 24GB of RAM, 12 of which are allocated to it and the other 12 to the…
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How to open Virt-manager VM from command line?

My system is Arch Linux 5.17.9 running i3wm. I am trying to start a VM which is configured in Virt-Manager and Qemu. I have tried the command, sudo virsh list --all this brings up the installed VMs on Virt-Manager in the terminal. I have then…
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How to start QEMU VM from command line?

To learn more about QEMU configuration, I would like to start VM ubuntu20.10 directly on the command line and not by usage of virt-manager. I have read in Convert libvirt xml into qemu command line, that one way is to look into…
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