josemanuel, 22 days ago

@0xDEADBEEF If I’m not mistaken, @ParadeGrotesque might be able to help you with that. He recently installed QEMU 9.0.0 on Slackware.

ParadeGrotesque, 22 days ago

@josemanuel @0xDEADBEEF

KVM is in the stock "huge" kernel on Slackware.

Compiling qemu 9.0.0 on Slackware 15 is just a matter of running "./configure ; make ; make install" and it compiles everything.

The only dependency of qemu is libslirp if you want user mode networking, that you can get from: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp

Again, compiling libslirp is just a matter of "./configure ; make ; make install".

Run your VMs with '-accel kvm' and you should be OK.

Hope this helps!

ParadeGrotesque, 22 days ago

@josemanuel @0xDEADBEEF

Side note: I have 3 VMs running on my server at all times: NetBSD, OpenBSD and Debian. Uptime is measured in weeks or more. Uptime of the Slackware server is about 70+ days right now.

I also run a Slackware 15 VM, but this one I only switch on from time to time.

VNC also works and it is possible to both SSH and VNC into VMs with this setup.

0xDEADBEEF, 22 days ago

@ParadeGrotesque
@josemanuel

Thanks! I'm torn between my current #gentoo and #slackware as a minimal headless host I can host (paravirtualized?) VMs on, like a #devuan desktop, old Windows and perhaps trying different archs.

ParadeGrotesque, 22 days ago

@0xDEADBEEF

Honestly, for that kind of use case, Slackware + qemu is hard to beat, IMHO.

Super stable base and 30+ CPU architectures available on qemu.

@josemanuel