There you will see the instructions on what you need to install. To install qemu/KVM on Arch Linux go to the qemu in the wiki. In my opionin (and many others), there is no better resource for information on Linux, and Linux operating systems. I personally am running Arch Linux, but qemu/KVM can be installed on any modern Linux distro. ![]() This post is to not only help you learn how to convert VMDK to qcow2, but give me a reference to look back on. I really don’t manage virtual-machines on a day to day basis, so I never really rememeber every step on what to do. I also hated the overhead another GUI tool creates, especially since running a vm is so heavy anyways. So for a while I stuck with Virt-Manager.Īll that time I prefered to use command-line tools over GUI tools for just about everything I do. While Gnome-Boxes has a really nice interface, Virt-Manager allows for more detailed configuration of your virtual machine. ![]() Granted you are running an operating system on top of another operating system (especially a GUI OS) is resource intensive as it is.Ībout 6 months ago I switched to using qemu/KVM, first with Gnome-Boxes, then Virt-Manager. VirtualBox is great and easy to use, but the preformance on lower powered machines is not so great. Years ago when I switched to using Linux, I started using VirtualBox to test other Linux distros, and to run Window. This is my fist post on this blog, so I decided to do something simple.
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