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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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5 Virtualization Tools

5.1 Virtualization Console Tools
5.2 Virtualization GUI Tools

5.1 Virtualization Console Tools

Using the libvirt-based tools is the recommended way of managing VM Guests. Interoperability between libvirt and libvirt-based applications such as virt-install has been tested and is an essential part of SUSE's support stance. All tools are provided by packages carrying the tool's name.

  • libvirt: A toolkit that provides management of VM Guests, virtual networks, and storage. libvirt provides an API, a daemon, and a shell (virsh).

  • virt-install: For defining a VM Guest and installing its operating system.

  • vm-install: Another tool to define a VM Guest and install its operating system (deprecated).

5.2 Virtualization GUI Tools

  • virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager): A graphical management tool for VM Guests.

  • virt-viewer: An X viewer client for VM Guests which supports TLS/SSL encryption of x509 certificate authentication and SASL authentication.

  • yast2 vm: A YaST tool that simplifies the installation of virtualization tools and can set up a network bridge:

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