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#27 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » virt-manager qemu/kvm install excalibur » 2026-02-14 14:42:58

steve_v   ...not at all but I`m too lazy to discuss

which is  much easier with a type-2 hypervisor like VB

VB on KVM is still VB and nothing else. It uses VB guest additions, not virtio and Co, etc.

#28 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » virt-manager qemu/kvm install excalibur » 2026-02-14 09:23:35

Multiple options are good.

There are only 3. (without XEN which is not linux but rather xenux, without bosch etc). The third one is bought by corporation worth than Oracle or similar and closed source. The second one can be used simultaneously with the first one when it use hypervisor from the first one (KVM) = take the best from 2 worlds.

This is exactly what I`ve wrote already.

P.S. As always, everybody is free to use whatever s/he likes and everybody is free to give an advise based on h.. own experience.

#29 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] ext4 write slow on small 120gb sata SSD » 2026-02-14 09:08:11

Benchmark numbers or it didn't happen.

You can do it on your own.
I got the effect.

Yes, the best. There are no concurrents smile

I like it, you can ignore it. It works. No overhead, just better I/O processing.

#30 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] ext4 write slow on small 120gb sata SSD » 2026-02-13 21:50:39

1. The best ssd accelerator for Linux:
https://github.com/firelzrd/adios

2.

encrypted install

If it's not AES then it's too slow.

#31 Re: Freedom Hacks » About installers » 2026-02-12 11:38:29

Has anybody tried the Calamares installer?

Yes, I often install Debian than convert it to Devuan. The installer is GUI clean and works. Also Debian is 100% supported by ventoy.

#32 Re: Devuan » Kde and Systemd - In the News » 2026-02-11 19:57:08

Yo do not understand what you talk about the openrc IS in Debian,

I understand. And more, I understand that openrc and all other than systemd inits are half-banned in Debian. Why would Debian like to develop them? There is no reason.

#34 Re: Devuan » Kde and Systemd - In the News » 2026-02-06 23:43:55

OK. But Debian  is systemd while Devuan is not. Devuan follows Debian. It's OK,  the idea is clear. But why does Devuan follows obsolet versions of inits that are not inits in Debian? Here is the difference between Debian and Devuan, why not to improve init? It's done already in other linuxes so it should not be very hard.

#35 Re: Devuan » Kde and Systemd - In the News » 2026-02-06 22:50:21

https://amutable.com/ -A new secure foundation
Bringing determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems

The author is Lennart Poettering smile

New init -> new security big_smile

#36 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » virt-manager qemu/kvm install excalibur » 2026-02-06 22:42:37

It's funny, Oracle decided to move towards KVM https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbo … 3848644498

They could not do it before because of the lack of resources. Oracle .... But other people could smile

Vulnerability exploited over a network https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/ … pendixOVIR
KVM is better.

#37 Re: Off-topic » XFCE is building a new WM and compositor for Wayland » 2026-02-06 19:20:35

But if my assessment is wrong then please enlighten me.

You are right. But if they will adopt wayland and KDE will fall down with systemd cancer, then I'll be able to switch back to xfce smile

Wayland is not ready and will never be, but it has no problem with scalling and control when multiple displays set up is in place.

#38 Re: Devuan » Kde and Systemd - In the News » 2026-02-06 19:12:16

figure it out yourself" for pipewire

why there is no support for user services in openrc? Pipewire starts by services at least in alpine, artix and gentoo. Who knows

#39 Re: Devuan » Kde and Systemd - In the News » 2026-02-06 19:09:27

Pity.

Only KDE and Cinnamon support HiDPI displays. Some stuff look ugly under xfce and Co while scalled. Gnome is over and the game over. Budgie (which scales excelent) is broken in Excalibur/Trixie (pb. adding items to panel).

#40 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » virt-manager qemu/kvm install excalibur » 2026-02-06 18:56:26

https://blog.programster.org/kvm-missin … lt-network

just start the network permanently with

virsh net-autostart default 

What does this

sudo usermod -a -G operator <user>

do?

check your /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

It’s worth to have there

unix_sock_group = "libvirt" 
unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

in

/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

set

user = "user" 
group = "kvm"

Do not forget to add user to aall this groups: kvm,  libvirt, *qemu*

then rc-update add libvirtd
and
rc-service libvirtd start (if you are using openrc, if sysvinit or runit then find appropriate commands to enable service)

After reboot you'll have started networ "default", running libvirt and user wil be granted access to use virt-manager and virt-viewer (I find virt-viewer more comfortable to run VMs, then virt-manager which is more suitable for creating them).

Also note that uefi can be broken in virt-manager. last time I have to copy uefi bios from somwhere and I don't know if thhe situation have been changed since.

If  you are looking for alternatives you can try  https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu  and GUI for it https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui

The gui will download and install guest for you. You can also copy uefi bios from this install in the cse you need it for virt-manager and you can run all these guests in parallel (virt-manager/viewer and quickemu).

More of that you can use https://github.com/ivan-hc/VirtualBox-appimage - this is an appimage of virtualbox that use KVM as hypervisor, not Oracle's core component!  It can be run in parallel with qemu, aqemu, quickemu, virt-manager etc.

Have fun.

#42 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-01 14:32:02

why for working at Windows i do not need read documentation,
because all works out from the box,
working at Windows much simpler than at Linux,
that boring, and time to time i use Linux as puzzle game for brainfucking smile

Why not use windows though?

Or, ... at least Zorin?

#43 Re: Installation » Problem with connecting to a bluetooth headphone [Solved] » 2026-01-28 18:23:21

pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is not needed for all scenarios of bluetooth connections. May be this is the reason why it's not in dependencies?

#44 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-28 18:17:48

I run it manually

ntpdate -s pool.ntp.org

when my system clock is more than ~ 20 secconds away. I remember also adding it to rc.local to let time to be synchronized once at boot time.

#45 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft and encrypted data » 2026-01-28 18:11:23

[emphasis mine]
Believing in software is a fairly insane concept to begin with. Use logic when selecting tools, not trust, and certainly not faith or "belief".

Not agree. It's exactly "belief". Closed source is always about belief and trust. The same applyes to opensource if you can't read or  understand the code. For exemple, I can't  do it with systemd code, but at the same time I red somewhere an article with statements that systemd + Intel ME or AMD ASP is end of all security. I can not check this information but I can see that there were some flaws in systemd security which were not  corrected by red "cap". That makes me to believe that systemd is not good.

#46 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft and encrypted data » 2026-01-28 00:27:14

did you believe in BitLocker or in Windows?

#47 Re: Off-topic » AI in Firefox or Waterfox » 2026-01-28 00:21:21

Librewolf too much of a hassle and Waterfox works better

Waterfox is more spyware than librewolf. There are some other options like abrowser from trisquel repo (works on Devuan) or ungoogled-chromium (zero connections to spynternet after install smile ). The last one has an issue, google blocks ublock origin. I mean ublock disappears after extension update etc and need to be manually reinstalled. The same story with localCDN. The fact that google bans these two addons means that these addons are must have.

#48 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Enlightenment » 2026-01-22 20:58:14

sddm boots almost everythhing and in most cases does not require manual intervention.

#49 Re: Devuan » Devuan 6 Extremely Poor Quality Control. » 2026-01-22 20:42:31

Been with Devuan since Ascii. This version 6 Excalibur is such a great representation of the extremely poor quality control of Devuan nowadays. What a flop. What a sh*t show.

It's not Devuan's fault, Devuan is unsystemded Debian.

Appalling, to be honest. Now I will leave Devuan. Poor quality control, not to mention the Firefox system bar having to be there taking spaces and no way to turn if off.

Good luck. All linuxes are going down and not only linuxes. You'll not find better. Or may be for just specific use case on specific hardware. May be try void, artix, antix, mx, ... bsd... but it's possible that you'll back. Pclinux did not support qemu/KVM (may be now?), alpine is complicated for advanced desktop setup, chimera linux will become systemd.

#50 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Is it Possible to Run Devuan on an intel architecture? » 2026-01-17 15:23:00

Compiling kernel modules for a CPU...?

I used AMD GPUs with Linux for years and can't recall compiling anything.

ryzen_smu for RyzenAdj
ths is due to  the fact that amd pstate on my laptop is wrongly configured using very high frequences while idle.

And again, I've never heared that someting does not work on pure Intel under Linux.

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