Brief Introduction
Learn KVM Installation, Configuration and Administration.Description
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor. It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 2.6.20, which was released on February 5, 2007.
In this quick training on KVM ( Kernel Based Machines) , we will discuss the following topics with appropriate LABs at end of the session :
Quick Introduction to Hypervior and KVM :
- What is a Hypervisor ?
- KVM Quick Intro , its Pros/Cons and Terminology
KVM Installation and Configuration
- LAB Details, Pre-Reqs for KVM Installation
- KVM Installation
- KVM Network Configuration
- KVM Storage Pool Configuration
Creating Guest Virtual Machines
KVM Administration
- Management of Guest Virtual Machines
- Backup of Guest Virtual Machines
- Expanding the disk sizes of Guest Virtual Machine
- Guest Virtual Machines Snapshot Create/Restore
- Renaming a Guest VM
- Increasing resources on of Guest Virtual Machines
- Cloning a guest VM
- Troubleshooting the KVM issues.
Requirements
- Requirements
- Basics of any Linux/Unix distribution.
- Laptop/PC with Intel Core i3/5/7 pr AMD processor , 04GB RAM and 40GB disk space.
- Basics idea on Hypervisor (not a must)