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Virtualization With KVM On A Debian Squeeze Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Debian Squeeze server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
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I kept on running across this error:
Error creating cdrom disk: Checking installer location failed: Could not find media '/var/lib/libvirt/images/<something>.iso'
Eventhough the file was there, with correct permissions.
Restarting libvirtd helped:
/etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart
Running "virsh pool-refresh POOL_NAME" should save you the service restart :-)
Where POOL_NAME would probably be: default
Awesome article. This helped me get started with KVM on Debian. Never used either, and am relatively new to Linux, but have a lot of experience with Windows servers and hence the transition wasn’t too hard.