[Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course

[Patrick]

Host firewalls/VPNs: a solution

Hello! So, one of the disadvantages of KVM as listed on the Wiki in Why use VirtualBox over KVM? is that it doesn’t work well with host firewalls or VPNs. The root cause of this issue lies in how Libvirt’s Virtual Networking is implemented. The relevant detail here is that libvirt inserts iptables rules to make its virtual networks work, and these tend to clash with any existing rules. Finally, after literally months of googling, learning and experimenting, I believe I’ve solved this …

[Patrick]

Whonix 18 - Wayland based - KVM - Clipboard Sharing - Broken

For users: related user documentation: KVM, Clipboard Sharing For developers: spice-vdagent feature request from 2022: Victor Toso@victortoso2 weeks ago Owner If patches are sent, I’ll be happy to review. Alternatively, the following might solve it: Virtual Machine Manager feature request: Other potential solutions: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/698083/kvm-clipboard-sharing-with-client-running-wayland Debian -- Details of package wl-clipboard in trixie VNC

[Patrick]

A wiki edit was suggested and accepted for KVM, Decompress.

4. Decompress.

If your filesystem does support sparse files:

tar -xSvf Whonix*.libvirt.xz

If your filesystem does not support sparse files:

tar -xvf Whonix*.libvirt.xz

-S stands for --sparse. Seems to make sense.

Please test.

[nurmagoz]

@Patrick

Please test.

It does decompress the .xz