These steps were carried out with Fedora based VM running on a libvirt KVM/QEMU host, so the commands will be specific to that setup in certain places. However the tools and process should be the same for most flavours of Linux. There are plenty of guides that help with managing…

I had previously run Arch Linux as a virtual host. While it did mean I had the features of the latest kernel and QEMU releases, the number of updates and stability issues a rolling release distro like Arch brings was a problem. With the more stable distros now having the features I wanted a couple ...

There are a number of ways to connect virtual machines together, all of them make use of a Linux bridge device (a virtual switch) which is controlled with the brctl command. The bridge can be left isolated so only VMs on the same host can communicate, or joined to a physical LAN and pass traffic at either Layer 2 ...

This tutorial will cover installation and basic configuration of libvirt and QEMU to a state where it's possible to easily provision new VMs with WebVirtMgr. It will be a minimalist install with as few dependencies as possible to keep the host easy to maintain. WebVirtMgr is not perfect, but is the best lightweight web GUI around at the moment. See the GitHub page for ...

The following tutorial will show the steps to create an Arch Linux system booting from the Btrfs file system. Btrfs is quite different from the Linux standard Ext3/4, and much closer to the UNIX focused ZFS in design and features. The Wikipedia article is a good introduction for those unfamiliar with how ...