Arch qemu-full installation

Note: This installation don’t include virtmanager

  1. Install qemu-full
    • sudo pacman -S qemu-full
    • qemu-system-x86_64 --version -> to verify installation
  2. Check that your cpu supports virtualization
    • lscpu | grep virtualization
  3. Load kernel modules
    • sudo modprobe kvm
    • sudo modprobe kvm_{intel, amd} => depends on your system
  4. make it permanent
    • lsmod | grep kvm
  5. Add your user to kvm (required to not use sudo always)
    • sudo usermod -aG kvm $USER
APENDIX

Mounting the folder 1. Inside the VM echo "hostshare /mnt/shared 9p trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,rw,_netdev 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab 2. sudo mkdir -p /mnt/shared 3. sudo mount -a

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