Posted on May 10, 2020 by kingbeowulf
On some AMD Ryzen X570 (Gigabyte) motherboards, virtualization is disabled in the UEFI firmware (BIOS). If are having trouble running qemu or virtualbox, the kvm module is loaded, and lscpu indicates that the CPU supports KVM, go into the BIOS, Tweaker menu tab (advanced mode), find "Advanced CPU settings" and enable "SVM mode".
On some boards, you can find the KVM settings under "Advanced CPU Core Settings" option group, under M.I.T tab - "Advanced Frequency Settings" option group - frequency settings - CPU core settings.
Posted on Feb 10, 2019 by kingbeowulf
This is a very simple bridge example to allow your qemu quest to access your host's LAN and internet, as opposed to being isolated to access only the internet via NAT (the default), for a Slackware64 14.2 host and a Windows 10 guest. Note: in this case you will need to install the Windows 10 virtio drivers, otherwise you can just use one of the standard emulated qemu NICs. Create the ACL file to allow user access to the bridge. As root create '/etc/qemu/bridge.conf' with the lines:
May 10, 2020
kingbeowulf
Feb 10, 2019
kingbeowulf