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I am trying to install metasploitable on KVM. I am quite new to the linux environment, and therefore I Struggle with things that might be somewhat trivial. I am using this guide http://linux-hacking-guide.blogspot.com/2015/05/convert-vmware-virtual-machine-to-kvm.html
and are currently stuck on stage 6.

I am trying to install metasploitable 2 on KVM so I can boot it up in Virtual Machine Manager. So far I have done the following:

Installed metasploitable2.zip

I extracted Metasploitable.vmdk and converted to Metasploitable.qcow2
I created a directory on home/user/desktop called iso. And moved the Metasploitable.qcow2 inside of it

created a new user called qemu, and gave that user the rights to use the file with chown qemu:qemu Metasploitable.qcow2

i granted the new user qemu access to the iso directory with setfacl -m u:qemu:x /iso

I extracted Metasploitable.vmx from the Metasploitable.zip into the iso directory and converted it to xml with python vmware2libvirt -f Metasploitable.vmx > Metasploitable.xml

So far my iso directory has

Metasploitable.qcow2  Metasploitable.vmdk  Metasploitable.xml

Now comes the part where I am stuck, the guide says:

6) Use 'virsh' to import into KVM. Unfortunately, in this step, virsh
is looking for /usr/bin/kvm and the binary is actually installed as
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm, so we need to make a symlink first.

[root@meru iso]# ln -s /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm /usr/bin/kvm

[root@meru iso]# virsh -c qemu:///system define Metasploitable.xml
Domain Metasploitable2-Linux defined from Metasploitable.xml

think the important part is the phrase the

binary is actually installed as /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm

However, I tried to continue with the steps to see if it granted any insight into the issue.

I checked to see if it existed, and it did not. There is no libexec inside of the usr directory.

ln -s /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm /usr/bin/kvm prompted me with: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/kvm': File exists

I controlled the usr/bin/kvm what it included and this is the inside of the kvm file.

#!/bin/sh

exec qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm "$@"

However I tried to skip to the next part, and tried

virsh -c qemu:///system define Metasploitable.xml Domain Metasploitable2-Linux defined from Metasploitable.xml

and got prompted with ined from Metasploitable.xml
error: unexpected data 'Domain'

How can I work around this, is it obvious what to do, or should i abandon this and try to install it on virtualbox instead? (please no)