Once the page loads, click on Download and then ARM from the Ubuntu Server section as marked in the screenshot below.Ĭlick on the Download Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS download button as marked in the screenshot below. In a later section of this article, I will show you what other alternatives are available at the time of this article.įirst, visit the official website of Ubuntu. In this article, I will show how to install Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS as a KVM virtual machine on the Raspberry Pi 4 as a demonstration. Luckily, KVM and all the required tools are available in the official package repository of Fedora Workstation 33.įirst, update the DNF package repository cache with the following command:ĭownloading Ubuntu Server ARM Installation Image:Ĭanonical has an official Ubuntu Server ARM release, which works great as a KVM guest (virtual machine) on the Raspberry Pi 4. Installing KVM, libvirt, and Virtual Machine Manager:īefore you can create KVM virtual machines, you need to have KVM and all the required tools installed on your Fedora Workstation 33.

If you need any assistance on installing Fedora Workstation 33 on your Raspberry Pi 4, check my article How to Install Fedora 33 on Raspberry Pi 4.

Internet connectivity on the Raspberry Pi 4.

A 32 GB or higher capacity microSD card with Fedora Workstation 33 ARM image flashed onto it.

A Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB or 8 GB version) single-board computer.

To follow this article, you will need the following things: In this article, I am going to show you how to install KVM on Raspberry Pi 4 and create a KVM virtual machine on the Raspberry Pi 4. Our all favorite Raspberry Pi OS may follow this path someday as well. Linux distributions like Fedora, Manjaro, etc., made KVM virtualization easy for the Raspberry Pi 4 by precompiling the KVM Linux kernel module. The recently released Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB model made KVM virtualization possible on the Raspberry Pi.

Docker is a better solution for these devices. 1 GB of memory is insufficient for KVM virtualization. One of the main reasons for this was that the Raspberry Pi 3 and older versions have only 1 GB of memory. Up until now, you could not run KVM virtualization on Raspberry Pi devices. KVM is a Linux kernel module that allows the Linux kernel to act as a hypervisor program like VMware ESXi or VSphere. It is the virtualization solution for Linux. The full form of KVM is Kernel Virtual Machine.

Virtualbox alternative for raspberry pi