Comments on: How to Install and Configure KVM on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server

By: Kami

Kami — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:26:02 +0000

Great article, step by step very helpful^_^ Thanks

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 04:21:21 +0000

In reply to Eddie. Hi Eddie, In case netplan is not present in your server then i would recommend create a file with name "01-netcfg.yaml" under /etc/netplan directory and copy paste the contents from article to this file.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 01:54:04 +0000

Doc states:
whenever we freshly installed Ubuntu 18.04 server then a file with name “/etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml” is created automatically, to configure static IP and bridge, netplan utility will refer this file.

NOT TRUE, this file is missing.
Would be helpful if based on ifconfig output how this file could be created

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:10:39 +0000

You’ll also need to install a X server on your host machine (for Windows, I recommend vcxsrv, open source and updated).

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:54:06 +0000

Do I understand correctly from Step 5 that one can be logged into a headless U 18.04 server via ssh and run the graphical virt-manager utility? Even in the absence of a local graphical environment?

If so, how must ssh be configured? Is it just a question of setting X11Forwarding=yes in the respective ssh_config and sshd_config files?

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:37:07 +0000

In reply to Pradeep Kumar. Could one instead configure the host machine as a router, forwarding packets between its physical interface and a separate virtual interface, the latter of which would be the gateway for guest machines' interfaces?

By: Cristian Arriaza

Cristian Arriaza — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 07:28:16 +0000

You are the best thank you very much, better than on the manufacturer’s website 🙂

By: Gannet

Gannet — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:57:16 +0000

In reply to Andy. Netplan is not needed at all. It is crap. I'm using networkd without netplan. So don't tell me if...then. I'm not stupid.

By: Askar

Askar — Wed, 15 May 2019 12:56:35 +0000

To check virtualization support the command should be …
egrep -c ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Sat, 11 May 2019 02:27:10 +0000

In reply to JV.

Hi ,

You should not loose your network connection as we are assigning the same IP of our Lan card to a bridge. In my case i am editing the existing file.

Make sure you put lines in correct format as it a YAML file.