Login and Promote yourself to root:
sudo su
Check if your computer has Virtualization Friendly CPU:
egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
Install necessary software (KVM, libvirt, virt-install, etc)
aptitude install -y ubuntu-virt-server python-virtinst virt-viewer
This will take care of most stuff, including a network bridge, libvirtd, etc.
Optional: To put the VMs in the same subnet as the host, you need to bridge your network (not using the virbr0 that was provided by libvirt).
The following script will do it if eth0 is your NIC to the subnet, and you have DHCP.
cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.bk
cat > /etc/network/interfaces <
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_fd 9
bridge_hello 2
bridge_maxage 12
bridge_stp off
EOF
Restart network:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
3. Now we install a Ubuntu10.04 Client:
Prepare a directory for the new VM
mkdir ubuntu_10.04_64_base_kvm
cd ubuntu_10.04_64_base_kvm
wget http://mirrors.login.com/ubuntu-iso/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso
virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n ubuntu_10.04_64_base_kvm -r 1024 --vcpus=1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=virtio26 -b virbr0 --arch=x86_64 --disk path=./ubuntu_10.04_64_base_kvm.img,size=20 --vnc --accelerate --disk path=./ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso,device=cdrom
