Richard Owlett writes:
On 07/01/2019 01:43 PM, Linux-Fan wrote:Richard Owlett writes:[...]I do not understand.It was an attempt to give you a list of packages that may allow you to start using VMs without further checks ...That your answer was "a list of packages" is key to the communication problem. A restatement of my question might be: I run the i386 version of Debian 9.8. Using only contents of that set of installation DVDs, I wish to use a VM host capable of running multiple VM guests. Although the guests will be running in command line mode, the host should have a GUI. What choice metapackages provide that function?
Thank you very much for the rephrasing -- the use of `host` and `guest`
aids the description very well.
TL;DR: There is (AFAICT) no metapackage satisfying your requirements.
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The long version:
As far as I can tell, there is no Debian metapackage to install my preferred
virt-manager (GUI) + libvirt (backend) + KVM (hypervisor) setup:
$ apt rdepends virt-manager
virt-manager
Reverse Depends:
Depends: mdvl-virtualization
$ aptitude show mdvl-virtualization
Package: mdvl-virtualization
Version: 1.0.0
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Linux-Fan <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 0
Depends: virt-manager, qemu, qemu-kvm, libvirt-clients, libvirt0,
libvirt-daemon,
libvirt-daemon-system
Description: MDVL Virtualization efforts
This metapackage installs common virtualization technology for MDVL,
i.e. KVM and frontend.
For my local purposes, I have created my own metapackage (not in Debian...)
-- this is why I suggested a list of packages: I expect that installing all
of the packages yields the same result (except for automatically vs.
manually installed packages...) as if a metapackage were used. In case it is
of use to you, I can send you an e-mail with a copy of my metapackage
(it is about 4 KiB as per `du -sh`, but it does not do well for world-wide
publication because it is not Debian Policy compliant etc. thus not
uploaded/attached anywhere yet).
HTH
Linux-Fan
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