This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing KVM, a virtualization infrastructure for Linux, on FreeBSD Latest.
Before installing any new software, it is important to ensure that your FreeBSD system is up-to-date. You can do this by running the following commands in the terminal:
sudo pkg update
sudo pkg upgrade
This will check for updates and install them if any are available.
Now that your system is up-to-date, you can proceed with installing KVM. First, you need to install the required packages:
sudo pkg install kvm libvirt py27-libxml2
This will install the KVM and libvirt packages along with the Py27-libxml2 library which is used by libvirt to manage virtual machines.
Next, you need to load the KVM kernel module so that it can be used by the virtualization infrastructure. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo kldload /boot/modules/if_kvm.ko
This will load the KVM kernel module into the kernel.
After you have installed KVM and loaded the kernel module, you need to configure KVM by setting up the libvirt daemon to start automatically at boot and starting it manually for this session.
Run the following command to start the libvirt daemon manually for this session:
sudo service libvirtd start
You can enable the libvirt service to start automatically at boot by running the following command:
sudo sysrc libvirtd_enable=YES
Congratulations! You have successfully installed KVM on FreeBSD Latest. Now you can start creating and managing virtual machines with libvirt.
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