How to install virt manager on OSX to manage KVM virtual machines
This is a tutorial showing you how to install virt manager on OSX to be used to manage KVM virtual machines from your mac.
Also how to have it lauch from the dock.
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Commands etc used in this video
Install Jeffery Wildmans Repository
brew tap jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager
install virt manager with virt viewer
brew install virt-manager virt-viewer
install xquartz
brew cask install xquartz
run virt manager
virt-manager --no-fork
fix no module named git
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dropbox link for laucher
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qwcqtnl66a...
edit libvirtd.conf
nano /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
Note. If using unRAID as your hypervisor make sure you have nerd tools installed with netcat-openbsd enabled
This is how to use ssh with unRAID and virt manager.
We need libbsd and netcat-openbsd to be installed on unraid.
To get netcat-openbsd we can use the nerd tools pack which you can download through
community applications.
The libbds download the package from here https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1lqoxd1tb5...
Go to your flash drive and put this in the extra folder (create it if it doesn't exist)
Now when you reboot unraid will load libbsd each time the server is started
To use straight away ssh into the server and run
installpkg /boot/extra/libbsd.txz
Now you cant just setup the ssh from in virt manager connection. We have to do this from command line
like this
on your mac open terminal and run the following
virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://root@tower/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock --no-fork
(please note the root@tower part replace that with name or IP of your server eg [email protected])
Once this has been run once virt manager will remember the connection.
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