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Mastering KVM Virtualization

You're reading from Mastering KVM Virtualization Dive in to the cutting edge techniques of Linux KVM virtualization, and build the virtualization solutions your datacentre demands

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784399054

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Fedora

Concepts

System Administration

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Mastering KVM Virtualization

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Understanding Linux Virtualization FREE CHAPTER

2. KVM Internals

3. Setting Up Standalone KVM Virtualization

4. Getting Started with libvirt and Creating Your First Virtual Machines

5. Network and Storage

6. Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management

7. Templates and Snapshots

8. Kimchi – An HTML5-Based Management Tool for KVM/libvirt

9. Software-Defined Networking for KVM Virtualization

10. Installing and Configuring the Virtual Datacenter Using oVirt

11. Starting Your First Virtual Machine in oVirt

12. Deploying OpenStack Private Cloud backed by KVM Virtualization

13. Performance Tuning and Best Practices in KVM

14. V2V and P2V Migration Tools

Converting a Virtual Machine into a Hypervisor

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we covered various virtual network and storage configurations for KVM virtualization. We also looked into various aspects of storage management. In the next chapter, we will see the lifecycle management of a virtual machine.

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