• Network Security Manager On-Premises
• Overview
  • About NSM
  • Related Documents
  • Conventions
    • UI Conventions
    • Guide Conventions
• Before Starting
  • Installation Quick Start
  • Prerequisites
  • Supported Firewalls
  • System Requirements
    • Capacity Requirements
    • Scaling Up
    • Licensing Model
  • Creating an MSW Account
  • Obtaining the Image
    • Obtaining a New Licensed Image
    • Obtaining a Trial Version
    • Downloading NSM for an Existing Instance
• Installing NSM on ESXi Server
  • Installing on ESXi Server
  • Connecting to the Console from ESXI
• Installing NSM on Hyper-V
  • Preparing the Windows Server System
  • Installing NSM On-Premises on Hyper-V
  • Connecting to the Console from Hyper-V
• Installing NSM on KVM
  • Deploying NSM on KVM via Virtual Machine Manager
• Installing NSM on Azure
• NSM Settings and Registration
  • Configuring NSM Network Settings
  • Registering NSM
  • Associating Firewalls on MSW
  • Unregistering NSM
• Console Operations
  • Management Console Operations
  • NSM Management Console Menu
  • Using SafeMode on the Management Console
    • Enabling SafeMode
    • Disabling SafeMode
    • Configuring Network Interfaces in SafeMode
      • Configuring Interface Settings
      • Disabling an Interface
    • Installing a Software Upgrade in SafeMode
    • Downloading Logs in SafeMode
• Using NSM
  • Interface Overview
  • Dashboard
  • Creating a Tenant
  • Creating a New User
  • Adding a Device
• Integrate On-Prem Analytics with NSM
• Upgrade Instructions
  • Upgrade Using Management Console
  • Upgrading SonicOS Firmware
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Installing KVM

After confirming that your system can support KVM virtualization, you can start installing KVM. To install KVM, virt-manager, bridge-utils and other dependencies, run the following command:

$ sudo apt install -y qemu qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager

• The qemu package (quick emulator) is an application that allows you to perform hardware virtualization.

• The qemu-kvm package is the main KVM package.

• The libvritd-daemon is the virtualization daemon.

• The bridge-utils package helps you create a bridge connection to allow other users to access a virtual machine other than the host system.

• The virt-manager is an application for managing virtual machines through a graphical user interface.

Next, you need to confirm that the virtualization daemon, libvritd-daemon, is running by executing the following command:

$ sudo systemctl status libvirtd
libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-10-18 15:08:34 PDT; 1 months 16 days ago

If you want to start it on boot, you can run this command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd

To check if the KVM modules are loaded, run the following command:

$ lsmod | grep -i kvm

From the output, you can observe the presence of the kvm_intel module. However, this is the case for Intel processors. For AMD CPUs, you get the kvm_amd output instead:

$ lsmod | grep -i kvm
kvm_intel             282624  0
kvm                   663552  1 kvm_intel