Once upon a time, Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> said: > 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 you install qemu-kvm, that includes GUI console support, so you get a bigger set of dependencies (qemu-kvm is a virtual package that just pulls in all the necessary things). You can instead install qemu-kvm-core to get a more "headless" setup. I think that some of the graphical libraries are related to supporting graphical VMs (e.g. Windows), but I'm not sure. There's not a companion libvirt-daemon-kvm-core though, so I think you just have to pick and chose the libvirt-daemon-* packages you want manually (libvirt-daemon-kvm is another virtual package that pulls in, among other things, the qemu-kvm virtual package). So, a package set that might be more what you are looking for would be: qemu-kvm-core libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu libvirt-daemon-driver-network libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core virt-install There are two comps groups for virtualization: Virtualization and Headless Virtualization, but the "headless" group still pulls in the full qemu-kvm and libvirt-daemon-kvm virtual packages, so a bigger footprint with a bunch of GUI support. The only difference for the "headless" group is that it doesn't include the desktop GUI VM management tools virt-manager and virt-viewer -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
