It is a bit tricky but not impossible to emulate MMC/SD card storage in a virtual machine controlled by libvirt.
Tag: libvirt
Autoyast: Partitioning that works both on real hardware and inside virtual machines
Continuing a small series on Autoyast tips and tricks after the first post, Retaining/Reusing existing partitions, let’s look at another use case for dynamically modifying the Autoyast profile.
Enabling libvirt channels by adding virtio_console to the openSUSE installation
libvirt supports the concept of so-called channels that represent private communication channels between a libvirt guest and its host.
Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 13.1
As a revisit to my previous post on connecting to libvirtd as a non-root user on openSUSE 12.2, the way to do it on openSUSE 13.1 is the same that worked for Marek Goldmann on Fedora 18 (although he used the wheel group). Create /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/80-libvirt-manage.rules with the following content: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id ==… Continue reading Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 13.1
Coexistance of SuSEfirewall and libvirt – restoring libvirt’s firewall rules automatically
Running libvirtd on openSUSE, you might eventually run into the situation that your KVM guests sooner or later lose network connectivity to the outside world, if some interface on the KVM host goes up or down or SuSEfirewall is run for some other reason, eg. manual restart.
Windows Update inside KVM virtual machine crashes iwlwifi
And I was wondering why running Windows Update inside a KVM virtual machine failed with some mysterious error code:
Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 12.2
An old bug still bites one trying to connect to libvirtd/, eg. when starting virt-manager. By default, a password prompt asking for the root password appears. You might think that virt-manager would behave like VirtualBox and adding yourself to the libvirt group would suffice but to no avail. While that group exists, in the default… Continue reading Connecting to libvirtd as non-root user on openSUSE 12.2
PXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (2/2)
As a followup to my earlier post, I also did some tests with iPXE‘s bin/undionly.kpxe and bin/undionly.kkpxe targets.
PXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (1/2)
During the past days at FOSDEM, I wanted to do some work on automatic OS installs via PXE servers. Therefore, I set up a virtual machine in VirtualBox and enabled network booting. VirtualBox has a sparely documented DHCP/TFTP server built-in when you set up the network adapter in NAT mode, but for all what it’s… Continue reading PXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (1/2)
libvirt utilities on openSUSE 12.1 appear to be broken
The libvirt tools on openSUSE 12.1 currently cause me some headache: