21. Creating KVM Virtual Machines using Cockpit and virt-manager
KVM-based virtual machines can easily be configured on Fedora 31 using either the virt-install command-line tool, the virt-manager GUI tool or the Virtual Machines module of the Cockpit web console. For the purposes of this chapter we will use Cockpit and the virt-manager tool to install a Fedora distribution as a KVM guest on a Fedora 31 host. Before proceeding, however, it is important to note that virt-manager is now deprecated in Fedora 31 with the intention that it will be fully replaced by the Cockpit module in the future. As of Fedora 31, however, virt-manager is still available and includes features not yet integrated into the Cockpit virtual machine module.
The command-line approach to virtual machine creation will be covered in the next chapter entitled “Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh”.
