Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

KVM: Creating an Ubuntu VM with console-only access

October 6, 2018
Categories: Linux

If you are running KVM on a console-only host OS, you can still do a full Ubuntu installation on a KVM guest VM by using serial port output and the Ubuntu Server text-based installer. Once deployed, this guest VM can be accessed by using ssh or ‘virsh console’, without the need for a graphics display. … KVM: Creating an Ubuntu VM with console-only access

KVM: Bare metal virtualization on Ubuntu with KVM

August 27, 2018
Categories: Linux, Virtualization

Update September 2022: Validated these instructions on Ubuntu 22.04 If you are running an Ubuntu host, you have multiple choices for a virtualization hypervisor. I have written up several articles on using VirtualBox, but now let’s consider a bare metal hypervisor like KVM. KVM is a type 1 hypervisor implemented as a Linux kernel module … KVM: Bare metal virtualization on Ubuntu with KVM