Virtualization Guide
- About This Manual
- I Introduction
- II Managing Virtual Machines with
libvirt - III Common Tasks
- IV Managing Virtual Machines with Xen
- 18 Setting Up a Virtual Machine Host
- 19 Virtual Networking
- 20 Managing a Virtualization Environment
- 21 Block Devices in Xen
- 22 Virtualization: Configuration Options and Settings
- 23 Administration Tasks
- 24 XenStore: Configuration Database Shared between Domains
- 25 Xen as a High-Availability Virtualization Host
- V Managing Virtual Machines with QEMU
- VI Managing Virtual Machines with LXC
- Glossary
- A Virtual Machine Drivers
- B Appendix
- C XM, XL Toolstacks and Libvirt framework
- D Documentation Updates
- E GNU Licenses
Part I Introduction
- 1 Virtualization Technology
Virtualization is a technology that provides a way for a machine (Host) to run another operating system (guest virtual machines) on top of the host operating system.
- 2 Introduction to Xen Virtualization
This chapter introduces and explains the components and technologies you need to understand to set up and manage a Xen-based virtualization environment.
- 3 Introduction to KVM Virtualization
- 4 Introduction to Linux Containers
Linux container is a lightweight virtualization method to run multiple virtual units (containers, similar to the chroot environment) simultaneously on a single host. Containers are isolated with kernel Control Groups (cgroups) and kernel Namespaces.
- 5 Virtualization Tools
- 6 Installation of Virtualization Components
None of the virtualization tools is installed by default.
- 7 Supported Guests, Hosts and Features
Supported virtualization limits for XEN and KVM are available in the Release Notes (http://www.suse.com/releasenotes/).