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Virtualization Guide
  1. About This Manual
  2. I Introduction
    1. 1 Virtualization Technology
    2. 2 Introduction to Xen Virtualization
    3. 3 Introduction to KVM Virtualization
    4. 4 Introduction to Linux Containers
    5. 5 Virtualization Tools
    6. 6 Installation of Virtualization Components
    7. 7 Supported Guests, Hosts and Features
  3. II Managing Virtual Machines with libvirt
    1. 8 Overview
    2. 9 Guest Installation
    3. 10 Basic VM Guest Management
    4. 11 Connecting and Authorizing
    5. 12 Managing Storage
    6. 13 Configuring Virtual Machines
    7. 14 Administrating VM Guests
    8. 15 Save and Restore of Virtual Machines
  4. III Common Tasks
    1. 16 VM Guest Clock Settings
    2. 17 libguestfs
  5. IV Managing Virtual Machines with Xen
    1. 18 Setting Up a Virtual Machine Host
    2. 19 Virtual Networking
    3. 20 Managing a Virtualization Environment
    4. 21 Block Devices in Xen
    5. 22 Virtualization: Configuration Options and Settings
    6. 23 Administration Tasks
    7. 24 XenStore: Configuration Database Shared between Domains
    8. 25 Xen as a High-Availability Virtualization Host
  6. V Managing Virtual Machines with QEMU
    1. 26 QEMU Overview
    2. 27 Guest Installation
    3. 28 Running Virtual Machines with qemu-system-ARCH
    4. 29 KVM Disk Cache Modes
    5. 30 Administrating Virtual Machines with QEMU Monitor
  7. VI Managing Virtual Machines with LXC
    1. 31 Linux Containers
    2. 32 Migration from LXC to libvirt-lxc
  8. Glossary
  9. A Virtual Machine Drivers
  10. B Appendix
  11. C XM, XL Toolstacks and Libvirt framework
  12. D Documentation Updates
  13. E GNU Licenses
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D Documentation Updates

D.1 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)
D.2 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12)

This chapter lists content changes for this document since the release of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3.

This manual was updated on the following dates:

D.1 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)

Bugfixes

D.2 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12)

General

  • Removed all KDE documentation and references because KDE is no longer shipped.

  • Removed all references to SuSEconfig, which is no longer supported (Fate#100011).

  • Move from System V init to systemd (Fate#310421). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • YaST Runlevel Editor has changed to Services Manager (Fate#312568). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • Removed all references to ISDN support, as ISDN support has been removed (Fate#314594).

  • Removed all references to the YaST DSL module as it is no longer shipped (Fate#316264).

  • Removed all references to the YaST Modem module as it is no longer shipped (Fate#316264).

  • Btrfs has become the default file system for the root partition (Fate#315901). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The dmesg now provides human-readable time stamps in ctime()-like format (Fate#316056). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate#316175). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • MariaDB is now shipped as the relational database instead of MySQL (Fate#313595). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • SUSE-related products are no longer available from http://download.novell.com but from http://download.suse.com. Adjusted links accordingly.

  • Novell Customer Center has been replaced with SUSE Customer Center. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • /var/run is mounted as tmpfs (Fate#303793). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The following architectures are no longer supported: Itanium and x86. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (ip in most cases). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

    arp: ip neighbor
    ifconfig: ip addr, ip link
    iptunnel: ip tunnel
    iwconfig: iw
    nameif: ip link, ifrename
    netstat: ss, ip route, ip -s link, ip maddr
    route: ip route

  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

Part I, “Introduction”
Chapter 8, Overview

  • Added introductory paragraph on virt-install.

Chapter 9, Guest Installation
Chapter 12, Managing Storage
Chapter 13, Configuring Virtual Machines
Chapter 10, Basic VM Guest Management
Part IV, “Managing Virtual Machines with Xen”

  • Migrated from Xend/xm toolkit to xl.

Chapter 22, Virtualization: Configuration Options and Settings
Chapter 27, Guest Installation
Chapter 28, Running Virtual Machines with qemu-system-ARCH
Chapter 30, Administrating Virtual Machines with QEMU Monitor
Part VI, “Managing Virtual Machines with LXC”
Bugfixes

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