Installation (KVM)

Prerequisites

This guide assumes you have a working Ubuntu Server with one physical NIC that will used for networking to the host server, and also for a bridged network for guest virtual machines.

Ensure your server has CPU's that support hardware virtualisation, you should get one output of flags per CPU (which will include either svm or vmx)

 egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Installation

Install using the following command

apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst bridge-utils cpu-checker