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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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Part V Managing Virtual Machines with QEMU

26 QEMU Overview

QEMU is a fast, cross-platform open-source machine emulator which can emulate a huge number of hardware architectures for you. QEMU lets you run a complete unmodified operating system (VM Guest) on top of your existing system (VM Host Server).

27 Guest Installation

The libvirt-based tools such as virt-manager, virt-install, or vm-install offer convenient interfaces to set up and manage virtual machines. They act as a kind of wrapper for the qemu-system-ARCHcommand. However, it is also possible to use qemu-system-ARCH directly without using libvirt-based tools …

28 Running Virtual Machines with qemu-system-ARCH

Once you have a virtual disk image ready (for more information on disk images, see Section 27.2, “Managing Disk Images with qemu-img”), it is time to start the related virtual machine. Section 27.1, “Basic Installation with qemu-system-ARCH” introduced simple commands to install and run a VM Guest. …

29 KVM Disk Cache Modes

30 Administrating Virtual Machines with QEMU Monitor

When QEMU is running, a monitor console is provided for performing interaction with the user. Using the commands available in the monitor console, it is possible to inspect the running operating system, change removable media, take screen shots or audio grabs and control several other aspects of the…

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