KVM

Debian

apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system

Fedora 28

I had removed zfs-fuse, which also removed a number of kvm modules that I needed. To re-install I was able to follow the following link

sudo dnf install libvirt-daemon
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
sudo systemctl start libvirtd
sudo dnf install qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt-python python-virtinst libvirt-client virt-install virt-viewer device-mapper-libs libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu libvirt-daemon-config-network libvirt-daemon-kvm

Create Storage Domain

I have a ZFS pool already established, with several volumes in use. I will be creating a new volume dedicated to this purpose and will set it as one of two pools. The other being the ISO directory where I keep ISOs.

virsh # pool-list
 Name                 State      Autostart 
-------------------------------------------
 default              active     yes              
 michael              active     yes       
 qemu                 active     yes       

virsh # pool-autostart --pool default --disable 
Pool default unmarked as autostarted

virsh # pool-undefine --pool default 
Pool default undefined

virsh # pool-autostart --pool michael --disable 
Pool michael unmarked as autostarted


virsh # pool-list 
 Name                 State      Autostart 
-------------------------------------------
 default              active     no        
 localstorage         active     no        
 michael              active     no        
 qemu                 active     no        

Now I can create the new pool. I am going to use the most basic config options.

virsh # pool-create-as default --type dir --target /raid5/libvirt
Pool default created

virsh # pool-autostart --pool default
Pool default marked as autostarted

virsh # pool-list
 Name                 State      Autostart 
-------------------------------------------
 default              active     yes               
 michael              active     no        
 qemu                 active     no        

virsh # 

Remove Default Network

To remove the default network from the host. This can conflict with other services running if this is a shared environment. In my case I run a DNS server off the host, and the default network uses DNS forwarding with dnsmasq. When dnsmasq is running it takes port 53 which prevents my DNS service from running.

[root@nas ~]# virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
       'quit' to quit

virsh # net-destroy default
Network default destroyed

virsh # net-list
 Name                 State      Autostart     Persistent
----------------------------------------------------------

virsh # exit

Setup Bridged Network

I already had a bridge created for LXC containers, it only made sense to use it for KVM guests as well.

• Create the XML file. My existing bridge name is virb0.

<network>
  <name>bridge1</name>
  <bridge name="virbr0" />
  <forward mode="bridge" />
</network>

• Create the network using virsh

virsh # net-list 
 Name                 State      Autostart     Persistent
----------------------------------------------------------

vvirsh # net-define --file br.xml 
Network bridge1 defined from br.xml

virsh # net-list 
 Name                 State      Autostart     Persistent
----------------------------------------------------------

virsh # net-start --network bridge1
Network bridge1 started

virsh # net-list 
 Name                 State      Autostart     Persistent
----------------------------------------------------------
 bridge1              active     no            yes

• Set to auto start

virsh # net-autostart --network bridge1
Network bridge1 marked as autostarted

SELinux

Image Files

After a server rebuild I wanted the disk images to be placed in another directory. SELinux would NOT work for me, even after setting the context based on Red Hat's documentation. Found an obscure posting after an hour of searching that got me running. The only difference is svirt_image_t vs virt_image_t.

semanage fcontext -a -t svirt_image_t "/data/libvirt/images(/.*)?"
restorecon -vR /data/libvirt/images 

At one point I needed to remove bad context. The policy is kept in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local but you can't edit this directly.

semanage fcontext -d "/data/archive/ISO/ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso"

What is really annoying is that audit logs were not reporting any violations when using the troubleshooter, but I was getting the following

type=VIRT_CONTROL msg=audit(1576848063.439:6601): pid=1265 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 \
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=kvm op=start reason=booted vm="Unifi" uuid=37eed7bf-a37f-4d49-86c2-b9a6bb8682c3 \
vm-pid=-1 exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'UID="root" AUID="unset"