When:
Thursday, February 17, 2022 @ 7:00pm
Where:
Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 348
MASKS ARE REQUIRED!
We will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87602254357
Meeting ID: 876 0225 4357
If joining a meeting from a Windows PC, the Zoom client will automagically download and attempt to install. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.
Presentations/Topics:
“QEMU is a free and open-source hypervisor. It emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems. It can interoperate with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to run virtual machines at near-native speed.” – Wikipedia
Similar to VirtualBox, but much faster on a Linux host, the combination of KVM, QEMU, libvirt-daemon, and virt-manager will allow you to quickly and easily create virtual machines running the operating system of your choice.
Grant Root is a long-time VirtualBox user who recently discovered that KVM/QEMU is a lot less scary than he expected. He will demonstrate installing and configuring the necessary packages for an Ubuntu-based system, creating a new virtual machine, and installing a (small) Linux operating system on the VM. For those who want to get a head start, check out his documentation here.
As always, any news, discussions, and questions about Linux / Open Source topics are welcome.