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Create a virtual machine with Virtual Machine Manager

Create a virtual machine with Virtual Machine Manager

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Create a virtual machine with Virtual Machine Manager

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- [Instructor] The virt-manager software that we installed earlier, along with the libvirt tools, gives us a graphical way of creating and managing virtual machines. We can open it up from the command line here with virt-manager, or we can find the application on the system by searching here for Virtual Machine Manager, and there it is. I'll open it up. The first screen that I see is a list of virtual machines that Virtual Machine Manager can access. This is the same list that we could see from virsh, which isn't a surprise. We'll explore managing these machines with Virtual Machine Manager in a little bit, but first, let's see how to set up a new guest using the graphical interface. Here in the file menu, we have a few options. New Connection is for connecting to a different instance of libvirt running somewhere else. The next option here, New Virtual Machine, is what we want. This option, or the button here in the toolbar with the sparkly new computer icon, will both open up a…

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