KVM Kernel Virtualization Machine on Rocky Linux 9

...below are just rough notes from three different sources, including ChatGPT. They are ordered in each section as below from the following sources;

• https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-kvm-on-rocky-linux-almalinux/
• https://computingforgeeks.com/install-use-kvm-virtualization-on-rocky/
• ChatCPT

Check for VM Support in CPU;

• cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "vmx|svm"
• lscpu | grep Virtualization
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Install all the Stuff (for the first two sources there were duplicate items on multiple lines that were cleaned up, oops, no proof reading on their part, huh, just a copy and paste);

• dnf install qemu-kvm virt-manager libvirt virt-install virt-viewer libguestfs-tools bridge-utils virt-top
• dnf install qemu-kvm virt-manager libvirt virt-install virt-viewer libguestfs-tools bridge-utils virt-top
• dnf install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-install virt-manager AND apparently installing virt-manager again (just to make sure)

NOTES: And of course there are about a hundred or so other dependencies that are downloaded and installed too.

ISSUES: bridge-utils virt-top might give issues if attempting to install at the same time, so try installing separately.

Check Installation;

• lsmod | grep kvm
• lsmod | grep kvm
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Start AND Enable Automatic Starting of the "KVM" Services AND see if they're actually running;

• sudo systemctl start libvirtd AND systemctl enable --now libvirtd AND systemctl status libvirtd
• sudo systemctl start libvirtd AND sudo systemctl enable libvirtd AND systemctl status libvirtd
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Permissions and User Related Stuff;

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• usermod -aG libvirt $USER
• usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami)