KVM installation

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Prepare Installation Media on USB

• Ventoy

• Debian Live CD

Disk layout

Partition	Disk 1	Disk 2	Type	Device	Mount Point
1	1GB	1GB	mdraid	/dev/md0	/boot/efi
2	1GB	1GB	mdraid	/dev/md1	/boot
3	500GB	500GB	LVM	system/root	/

Useful commands

# Clear mdadm metadata
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/nvme0n1p[1-4]

# Create metadata 1.0 mdraid device
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-device=2 --metadata=1.0 /dev/nvme1n1p1 missing

# Duplicate GPT partition table and re-randomize the partitions' GUID
sgdisk /dev/nvme0n1 -R /dev/nvme1n1
sgdisk -G /dev/nvme1n1

# inform the OS of partition table changes
partprobe

Cockpit

Installation

# Install cockpit
apt install -y cockpit

# Install LVM2 support for udisks2 (utilized by cockpit storaged)
apt install udisks2-lvm2

# Login to cockpit http://ip:9090/

Convert system/root to raid1

LVM

lvconvert --type raid1 -m 1 system/root

Network configuration

# Disable network interface in /etc/network/interfaces
nano /etc/network/interfaces

# Restart NetworkManager service
systemctl restart NetworkManager

Define network bridge in cockpit

• IP may change

• May require reboot

KVM via cockpit

# Install cockpit KVM package
apt install cockpit-machines

Example: Windows guest via cockpit

VM=windows
# remove TPM emulator
virt-xml $VM --remove-device --tpm type=emulator

# Add TPM device
virt-xml $VM --add-device --tpm model=tpm-tis,backend.type=emulator,backend.version=2.0,alias.name=tpm0

Example: Windows guest via virt-install

INSTALLER=/mnt/setup/Win11_22H2_English_x64v2-virtio.iso
virt-install \
 --virt-type kvm \
 --graphics vnc \
 --tpm model='tpm-tis',type=emulator,version='2.0' \
 --boot firmware=efi,firmware.feature0.name=secure-boot,firmware.feature0.enabled=no \
 --vcpus maxvcpus=8,vcpus=8 \
 --memory memory=4096,currentMemory=4096 \
 --disk size=64,bus=virtio \
 --network bridge=bridge0,model=virtio \
 --os-variant=win11 \
 --cdrom=$INSTALLER