QEMU/KVM on ThinkPad X230T Laptop with Dual-boot

Vir­tu­al Ma­chines

I was in need to ac­cess Win­dows 10 from Kali Lin­ux on my dual boot­ed Leno­vo ThinkPad X230T de­vice. So here are the things I've done to achieve that.

Test the Vir­tu­al­iza­tion Ca­pa­bil­i­ties of the Sys­tem

Check weath­er the sys­tem sup­ports vir­tu­al­iza­tion and it is en­abled via the BIOS. The fol­low­ing com­mand must re­turn at least 1:

egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

In­stall QE­MU, KVM, LIB­VIRT

With­in the old­er ver­sions of De­bian based OS, like as Ubun­tu 20.04, we was in need to in­stall the pack­ages qe­mu qe­mu-kvm, but in mot re­cent op­er­at­ing sys­tems as Kali 2022 we need to in­stall qe­mu-sys­tem-x86 in­stead.

sudo apt install qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager virtinst libosinfo-bin ovmf remmina

In or­der to get rid of the pass­word di­a­logue for virt-man­ag­er – "Sys­tem pol­i­cy pre­vents man­age­ment of lo­cal vir­tu­al­iza­tion sys­tems" – I've added my Lin­ux user to the lib­virt group.

sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER

Set­up the vir­tu­al ma­chine

The set­up of the vir­tu­al ma­chine is done via the virt-man­ag­er GUI. The first "spe­cial" thing ac­cord­ing to my set­up is that both op­er­at­ing sys­tems are in­stalled in UE­FI mode, so the vir­tu­al ma­chine should be UE­FI with chipset Q35. In or­der to pass-through the phys­i­cal SSD/HDD you need to do set­up ad fol­low.

<disk type="block" device="disk">
  <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none" discard="unmap"/>
  <source dev="/dev/sda"/>
  <target dev="sda" bus="sata"/>
  <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/>
</disk>

Note you don't need to type the 5th line if your us­ing virt-man­ag­er to ed­it the XML en­try for the dri­ve – it will be gen­er­at­ed au­to­mat­i­cal­ly on save.

In most how-to man­u­als they pro­pose to use <tar­get dev="vdX" bus="virtio"/>, but it is not pos­si­ble to use vir­tio while there is not dri­ver in­stalled with­in the Win­dows 10 OS. So you need to in­stall the dri­ver first… or dur­ing the in­stal­la­tion of Win­dows if it is new in­stal­la­tion.

In­stall the guest tools

The fi­nal step of the set­up is in­stalling the QEMU/KVM Guest tools for Win­dows, thus the screen will be au­to­mat­i­cal­ly re­sized with­in the SPICE client of virt-man­ag­er.

The fi­nal con­fig­u­ra­tion of the VM

virsh dumpxml "Windows10_edk2.OVMF.CSM_QXL.SPICE.AC97" | tee "Windows10_edk2.OVMF.CSM_QXL.SPICE.AC97_2021.07.04_img.xml"

<domain type='kvm'>
  <name>Windows10_edk2.OVMF.CSM_QXL.SPICE.AC97</name>
  <uuid>55e58096-7aa3-4ca8-b18c-cb35aeadfde5</uuid>
  <title>Windows10 edk2.OVMF.CSM QXL.SPICE.AC97</title>
  <description>UEFI: https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/</description>
  <metadata>
    <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0">
      <libosinfo:os id="http://microsoft.com/win/10"/>
    </libosinfo:libosinfo>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu>
  <iothreads>1</iothreads>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.2'>hvm</type>
    <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-with-csm.fd</loader>
    <nvram>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Windows10_edk2.OVMF.CSM_QXL.SPICE.AC97_VARS.fd</nvram>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <hyperv>
      <relaxed state='on'/>
      <vapic state='on'/>
      <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/>
      <vpindex state='on'/>
      <synic state='on'/>
      <stimer state='on'/>
      <reset state='on'/>
      <vendor_id state='on' value='1234567890ab'/>
      <frequencies state='on'/>
    </hyperv>
    <kvm>
      <hidden state='on'/>
    </kvm>
    <vmport state='off'/>
    <ioapic driver='kvm'/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='partial'>
    <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='2'/>
  </cpu>
  <clock offset='localtime'>
    <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
    <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
    <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
    <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/>
  </clock>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <pm>
    <suspend-to-mem enabled='no'/>
    <suspend-to-disk enabled='no'/>
  </pm>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback' io='threads' discard='ignore'/>
      <source file='/mnt/vm-pool/vms/Windows10.img'/>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x0a' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/mnt/vm-pool/images/virtio-win-0.1.185--spice-guest-tools--w10-dla.iso'/>
      <target dev='sdb' bus='sata'/>
      <readonly/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='qemu-xhci' ports='15'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='sata' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/>
    <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='1' port='0x10'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='2' port='0x11'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='3' port='0x12'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='4' port='0x13'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='5' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='5' port='0x14'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x4'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='6' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='6' port='0x15'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x5'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='7' model='pcie-to-pci-bridge'>
      <model name='pcie-pci-bridge'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='8' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='8' port='0x16'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x6'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='9' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='9' port='0x17'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x7'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='10' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='10' port='0x18'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='lsilogic'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='direct'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:1c:0e:3a'/>
      <source dev='eno2' mode='bridge'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
        <model name='isa-serial'/>
      </target>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty'>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
    </console>
    <channel type='spicevmc'>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </channel>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'>
      <listen type='address'/>
      <gl enable='no'/>
    </graphics>
    <sound model='ac97'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </sound>
    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='2'/>
    </redirdev>
    <redirdev bus='usb' type='spicevmc'>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='3'/>
    </redirdev>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
</domain>

Ref­er­ences

• Ask Ubun­tu: Add phys­i­cal disk to KVM vir­tu­al ma­chine
• Ronaldevers​.nl: Adding a Phys­i­cal Disk to a Guest with Lib­virt / KVM
• Charleslabri​.com: Adding Passthrough Phys­i­cal Disk in KVM Guests
• Ask Fe­do­ra: Why does virt-man­ag­er ask for au­then­ti­ca­tion pass­word?

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