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windows_vm_in_kvm_on_headless_ubuntu_server [23.01.2016 16:48] Pascal Suterwindows_vm_in_kvm_on_headless_ubuntu_server [23.01.2016 17:10] Pascal Suter
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 now either reboot your machine or try to get your eth0 down using ''ifconfig'' and then get br0 up using ''ifup'' however be careful when you are doing this all remoetely!! in that case make really really sure you got your config right or even better, setup a backdoor, make sure your remote management module is accessible, whatever.. and then reboot your server.. and hope :)  now either reboot your machine or try to get your eth0 down using ''ifconfig'' and then get br0 up using ''ifup'' however be careful when you are doing this all remoetely!! in that case make really really sure you got your config right or even better, setup a backdoor, make sure your remote management module is accessible, whatever.. and then reboot your server.. and hope :) 
  
 +now in your qemu command line you ened to add the parameters 
 +<code>-net nic -net tap</code>
 +the default qemu-ifup script in /etc/ will do the rest for you. 
 +
 +==== example config ====
 +here is an example configuration for a windows 7 machine using the above mentioned init script.. if you use another init script or run kvm manually you can simply use all the cli options listed below as an example of what you might want to pass on to qemu.. also take a look at the man page it is very informative and helpful! 
 +
 +<code>
 +# Should be unique among all VMs
 +MONITOR_PORT=5801
 +
 +# Not mandatory, but useful to keep it in a distinct variable
 +VNC_DISPLAY=1
 +
 +# KVM parameters
 +KVM_OPTS="\
 +-enable-kvm \
 +-k de-ch \
 +-name windows \
 +-drive file=/vm/windows.img,if=virtio,format=raw,index=0 \
 +-m 4096 \
 +-net nic \
 +-net tap \
 +-vnc :$VNC_DISPLAY \
 +-monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:$MONITOR_PORT,server,nowait \
 +-monitor vc \
 +-daemonize \
 +</code>
  
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