These are just the basic preparatory steps along with a list of necessary packages. Comprehensive howtos have to be found elsewhere.
Fist, one needs to check if the necessary hardware prerequisites for virtualisation in KVM are met:
egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo If there is no output, KVM can't be set up on that machine.
Nowadays, the simple command kvm-ok is available in recent Ubuntu releases and checks kvm compatibility of the available CPU.
Next step is to install the necessary packages:
aptitude install libvirt-bin kvm ubuntu-vm-builder virt-viewer virt-manager
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