Next, you will need to install KVM and other required dependencies to your system. You can install it with the following command: apt-get install cpu-checker Next, you will also need to install cpu-checker tool to determine if your server is capable of running hardware accelerated KVM virtual machines. If output is 1 or more it support hardware virtualisation. Note: If output is 0 means that your CPU doesn't support hardware virtualization. You can check it with the following command: egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo KVM is a virtualization software, so you will need to verify whether your CPU supports virtualization or not. apt-get update -y Verify Hardware Support Once you are logged into your Ubuntu 18.04 desktop instance, run the following command to update your base system with the latest available packages. A root password is set up to your instance.Ĭreate a new ECS instance, choosing Ubuntu 18.04 as the operating system with at least 4GB RAM, and connect to your instance as the root user.

A static IP address 192.168.0.100 is set up to your Ubuntu 18.04 instance.A fresh Alibaba Cloud instance with Ubuntu 18.04 desktop installed.In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure KVM on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop with an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance. It has the ability to move a running VM between physical hosts with no service interruption. You can create, edit, start, stop and delete KVM-based virtual machines using Virt-Manager. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems and provides Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) for managing KVM based virtual machines. KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is an open source full virtualization solution for Linux that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual machines on Linux. By Hitesh Jethva, Alibaba Cloud Community Blog author.

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