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virt-manager running and showing VMs in KVM

Windows Server

2026-08-29

Connect to a KVM host through an ssh tunnel and arbitrary port in Windows 11 and WSL 2

Connect virt-manager to a KVM host through an ssh tunnel and arbitrary port in Windows using Windows 11 and WSL 2.

Add VirtIO drivers to Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)

Learn how to add VirtIO drivers to your Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) to recover your Windows virtual machines. Using Powershell of course and Windows Server 2022.

Windows Server

Last updated: 2026-08-29

Managing KVM VMs with virt-manager on Windows

In this post, I will show you how to connect to your KVM VMs (virtual machines) in Windows 10 via SSH using virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager) and qemu+ssh://. This allows you to manage your virtual machines from Windows.