Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?
Hello,
On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 03:33:09AM +0000, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> So what's the package name for just "kvm" without the GUI tools? Because
For someone that wants to run a hypervisor in a non-newbie manner
I'm afraid you don't seem to be that willing to do any of your own
research.
The package is still qemu-kvm (a virtual package that probably
depends on qemu-system-x86 for you).
By default that will install a ton of recommended packages that
include all the GUI tools you probably object to, but that is just
how Debian works [and necessarily how a general purpose binary Linux
distribution has to work].
If you want the minimum amount of packages to be installed you can
try installing without recommends, i.e.
# apt --no-install-recommends install qemu-kvm
which will dramatically reduce the number of packages, BUT:
- you may miss some package that's really useful in most cases -
installing without recommends is not a supported use case.
- you'll probably still get some packages you will never use.
This is all very basic Debian systems administration and so if you
weren't aware of these things I question whether you would have an
easy time trying to strip a Debian install of KVM down to the bare
minimum instead of going the easier route of just doing what there
are thousands of guides out there for.
If the idea of the installation of binary package dependencies that
you never use massively offends you I would suggest that Debian is
not an ideal match for you, and you may be better off going with
Gentoo or Arch or something.
Cheers,
Andy
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