What is the difference between virtio-net-pci, virtio-net-pci-non-transitional and virtio-net-pci-transitional

2022-01-11 Thread Ahmad Ismail
I am seeing multiple virtio models for -nic. % qemu-system-x86_64 -nic model=help | grep virtio virtio-net-pci virtio-net-pci-non-transitional virtio-net-pci-transitional I want to know the difference between them. When to use what? Thanks and Best Regards, Ahmmad Ismail

list only particular type of device

2022-01-14 Thread Ahmad Ismail
The following command give a list of all the devices. % qemu-system-x86_64 -device help I only want the list of Network devices. How can I get that?

Re: list only particular type of device

2022-01-14 Thread Ahmad Ismail
Thank you very much. *Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 4:07 PM Narcis Garcia wrote: > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -device help | sed -ne '/^Network devices:/,//p' | > sed -e '/^$/q' > > Narcis Garcia > > El 14/1/22 a les 10:40, Ahm

What is the difference between different netdev backends

2022-01-14 Thread Ahmad Ismail
For example, in case of virtualbox there is a table like [image: virtualbox-network.png] It shows the difference between different network options. However, I could not find a table like this for different netdav backends. $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nic help Available netdev backend types: socket hu

How to give internet access to bridge network

2022-01-14 Thread Ahmad Ismail
I run a vm with the following network option. -nic bridge,model=virtio-net-pci,mac=DE:AD:BE:EF:A5:9E,id=vm-net1,br=virbr0,helper=/usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper As you can see, I am using the bridge backend. How can I give it internet access?

How can I share clipboard between guest and host

2022-01-14 Thread Ahmad Ismail
I am running my vm using qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm,thread=multi -cpu host -smp 2 -m 4096 -drive file=mint20.3.qcow2,if=virtio -vga virtio -display gtk How can I copy-paste between guest and host?

How to get the hostname and IP address of a VM using qemu-guest-agent

2022-01-23 Thread Ahmad Ismail
I am running a VM using qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm,thread=multi -cpu host -smp 1 -m 2048 \ -drive file=ubuntu-server1.qcow2,if=virtio -vga virtio -display none -daemonize \ -nic bridge,model=virtio-net-pci,mac=DE:AD:BE:EF:E0:00 To get the IP address I have to use: ps -ef | grep qemu arp | gre

Re: How to get the hostname and IP address of a VM using qemu-guest-agent

2022-04-14 Thread Ahmad Ismail
Thank you very much for your kind answer. Due to a mail filter issue on my client, I did not find your response earlier. Sorry for the late reply.

Does not show Pre-Boot Login Menu (When using FDE) When Using Qemu

2022-05-04 Thread Ahmad Ismail
When I run VM with the following command: qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm,thread=multi -cpu host -smp 2 -m 4096 \ -drive file=/media/blueray/WDPurple8TB/QEMU_Backup/ubuntu.qcow2,if=virtio \ -vga virtio -display gtk,gl=on I get the following screen: https://i.stack.imgur.com/HofCx.png But I do not