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How to install properly a virtual machine in QEMU KVM

 ·  β˜• 1 min read  ·  🐧 sysadmin
In this video I explained how to properly install the QEMU KVM virtual machine. I provided two methods of installation and described in details how to make it work.

preallocation=metadata – allocates the space required by the metadata but doesn’t allocate any space for the data. This is the quickest to provision but the slowest for guest writes. Read the article: https://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/181…

model=virtio virtualport_type=openvswitch explained here: https://www.mankier.com/1/virt-instal…

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