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libvirt Wiki
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General project documentation
- Libvirt FAQ
- Introductory guides to a variety of libvirt topics
- General hints and tips
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Libvirt Docs Team To Do list
- Outstanding feature To Do list
- Switching over from running standalone QEMU to libvirt managed QEMU
- Anatomy of the libvirt library (IBM developerworks)
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Books
- Book "qemu-kvm & libvirt", ISBN 978-3-8370-0876-0, http://qemu-buch.de
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Configuration Management
- Puppet-virt - Puppet Module for Virtualization Management
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convert
- Converting VMware guests to libvirt/KVM guests - Blog entry showing how to convert a VMware guest domain to a libvirt/KVM guest domain
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Guest Management
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Concepts
- Guest (VM) Lifecycle : Read This First - Introduces the concepts used with guests / virtual machines. Includes things like persistent vs transient domains, creating, starting, stopping domains, saving, restoring, snapshots, and secure wiping of disk images.
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CGroups
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CPU
- Guest CPU model configuration with QEMU/KVM
- Guest CPU affinity and NUMA placement on host with QEMU/KVM
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KVM / QEMU
- What benefits does libvirt offer to developers targetting QEMU+KVM?
- Many introductory guides to libvirt with KVM
- Introduction to qemu guest agent
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Guest device Configuration
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Virtio
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libguestfs / guestfish
- Guestfish: generating inline commands from shell scripts - Blog entry showing how to generate inline guestfish commands from shell scripts
- libguestfs: Live CD inspection - Blog entry showing use of virt-inspector to tell what operating system is on a Live CD image
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Networking
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Concepts
- Virtual Networking : Read This First - Introduces the concepts and ideas used in libvirts' networking for guests
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Detailed networking pieces
- Host sFlow - Open source add-on for exporting sFlow data from guests
- IPtables / firewall usage in libvirt
- Libvirtd_and_dnsmasq - Additional configuration settings needed for running a global dnsmasq in addition to a libvirt controlled one
- Networking hints and tips
- Routed subnets with virtual networking
- Tip: Find the IP address of a virtual machine - Blog entry showing how to get the IP address of a guest domain
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Perl
- Sys-Virt - Daniel Berrange's perl module for managing guests
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Provisioning
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Cobbler
- cucumber-vhost - Automatic provisioning with Cobbler and Cucumber
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Foreman
- Foreman - Automatic provisioning with Foreman and libvirt
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Remote Management
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CIM
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QPID
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Security
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Host Security
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SSH
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Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- In depth guide to configuring TLS in libvirt (with many pictures)
- How to set up your VNC client software to use TLS
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Storage
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iSCSI
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QCow2 disk encryption
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Disk and Memory Snapshots
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Third Party Libvirt Applications
- Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) - Cloud Computing / Infrastructure as a Service Platform based on Libvirt API
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Other
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Images
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Debug logs
In case you want to turn on debuging in libvirt follow:
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