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What is QEMU/KVM?

In essence, QEMU/KVM are used to achieve virtual machines (VM) on Linux with high performanace through GPU acceleration. It offers more customibility and performance comparing with other existing VM softwares such as GNOME Boxes and VMware.

QEMU stands for Quick Emulator, it's the main virtualization software that allows full-system emulation. KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, it's a Linux kernel module that allows VM to run efficiently at kernel level.

Setting Up QEMU/KVM

• Installation
  Fedora

  sudo dnf install @virtualization
  sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd
  sudo usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami)
  newgrp libvirt  # Apply group changes without logout

  Arch

  sudo pacman -S qemu libvirt virt-manager dnsmasq ebtables iptables

  Debian/Ubuntu

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager
  
  # Add your user to the necessary groups
  sudo usermod -aG kvm $(whoami)
  sudo usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami)
  libvirt  # Apply group changes without logout
  
  sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd

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