rayluo
Does your script presume that one//all of the following are installed on the system?
(I checked and found that they are preinstalled in antiX 21 FULL edition, but are absent from Base edition)gir1.2-polkit-1.0
libpolkit-agent-1-0
libpolkit-gobject-1-0
libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0
I should have mentioned that I use antiX full version exclusively, so, all my scripts were only developed from, and tested on antiX full version. (Aside: this forum does not seem to allow me to modify my old post. Otherwise I would clarify that in my first post above.)
If missing, will they be automatically installed, as dependencies, when the following command is run?
sudo apt install qemu qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virt-manager libguestfs-tools -y
As mentioned above, I haven’t tested it with antiX base version. Perhaps you can just go ahead and try it. If some of them are indeed necessary, let me know, I can add it into my script.
KVM appears to be more efficient virtual engine, however not as user friendly. The way I understand also integration with host hardware is limited, such as mouse, USB and video. Is this still correct to say, or my info is too outdated?
I am still a fairly new KVM user (that installation script was the byproduct of my first encounter of KVM during my weekend hobby project). So, just take my opinion with a grain of salt. My understanding is the QEMU/KVM was originally developed as a lower level infrastructure (fwiw, kvm is a Linux kernel module), which provides better performance, but traditionally only available with command-line interface (CLI). That CLI might be considered as “less user friendly”? But my installation script also installs a GUI “Virtual Machine Manager” into your Start menu. With that GUI, I’d say its user friendness is comparable to Virtualbox.
And, once your VM is up and running, the mouse and video/audio all work well. I did not have a chance to test any other USB devices (other than the mouse), though. That being said, I haven’t figured out to use USB external storage on Virtualbox, either. So, to me, QEMU/KVM is not worse than Virtualbox in this regard.