On 3/13/22 13:45, Peter Boy wrote:
I just checked installation of qemu-kvm & libvirt & virt-install on a Fedora
Server Edition, that is a headless server. It installed 338 packages / 158 mb
including poppler, mesa, wayland, libX11, gtk3, cairo and a lot of additional graphic
related software.
I’m wondering, why I need Wayland or X11 etc for kernel virtualization and
running virtual machines? It turns my headless server into a graphical
workstation. It installs software that I don't need for running a headless
server, and don't want there.
If I install the same combo on a Debian / Ubuntu headless Server it installs
about 40 packages / 20 mb. I know, the packages are not the same, but
Debian/Ubunt doesn’t need X11, poppler, mesa, etc. for virtualization on a
headless server. Can't we do the same?
qemu-kvm is a metapackage which points to qemu-system-x86. That is also
a metapackage which brings in all the qemu packages including the
graphical parts. If you don't want that, then you have to install just
the packages that you need.
"dnf repoquery --requires qemu-system-x86" will give you the list of
included packages.
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