Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller Yeah vbox remained functional, just this install was weird. It wasn't "Not responding" but was simply hung.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@scottalanmiller Yeah vbox remained functional, just this install was weird. It wasn't "Not responding" but was simply hung.

Then my gut says it is Ubuntu that is the issue.

scottalanmiller

And that is not the current Ubuntu, which can at times be an issue.

Dashrender

Re downloaded ISO, unless the MD5 matches

DustinB3403

@dashrender said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Re downloaded ISO, unless the MD5 matches

Download a current ISO, not an out of date one.

WrCombs

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and ....
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

NerdyDad

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and ....
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

WrCombs

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and ....
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

i did something similar
i just did the two seperate.

NerdyDad

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and ....
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

i did something similar
i just did the two seperate.

That's cool too.

Emad R

@wrcombs

Dont dual boot, no need.

You had issues in VBox cause it does not support passing virtualization extensions aka nested virtualization.
Install that even as trial, and install Centos VM and not Ubuntu. (Most KVM runs on RHEL or Centos)

Then from Centos minimal :

Check CPU support for Virtualization:
grep -E '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
Install KVM:
yum groupinstall Virtualization "Virtualization Platform" "Virtualization Tools"
Disable firewall or Configure accordingly:
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

And that is it, you have functional KVM host, from inside your Windows 10 Pro, without dualboot.

Dashrender

@emad-r said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs

Dont dual boot, no need.

You had issues in VBox cause it does not support passing virtualization extensions aka nested virtualization.
Install that even as trial, and install Centos VM and not Ubuntu. (Most KVM runs on RHEL or Centos)

Then from Centos minimal :

Check CPU support for Virtualization:
grep -E '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Install KVM:
yum groupinstall Virtualization "Virtualization Platform" "Virtualization Tools"

Disable firewall or Configure accordingly:
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

And that is it, you have functional KVM host, from inside your Windows 10 Pro, without dualboot.

The title here leads to invalid assumptions. He wasn't trying to run KVM inside VBox, he was trying to run an old version Ubuntu so he could install the Unifi Controller software.

scottalanmiller

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and ....
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

scottalanmiller

Has this project been supplanted by the Fedora on the old desktop project?

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Has this project been supplanted by the Fedora on the old desktop project?

Yes sir