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Virtualization

QEMU / KVM

Running virtual machines on Genesi OS with QEMU/KVM and virt-manager.

Genesi supports hardware-accelerated virtualization through KVM, managed with libvirt and the virt-manager GUI — the same stack as Arch/CachyOS.

Install

sudo pacman -S qemu-full libvirt virt-manager dnsmasq
sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd
sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER     # log out/in afterwards

Then open Virtual Machine Manager and create a VM from an ISO.

Make sure virtualization (Intel VT-x / AMD SVM) is enabled in your BIOS/UEFI, otherwise KVM acceleration won't be available.

For advanced topics (GPU passthrough, networking modes, performance tuning), see the Arch Wiki: KVM and libvirt articles, which apply directly to Genesi.

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