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| * [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-libvirt/ Anatomy of the libvirt library (IBM developerworks)] | * [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-libvirt/ Anatomy of the libvirt library (IBM developerworks)] | ||
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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
- 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)
Books
- Book "qemu-kvm & libvirt", ISBN 978-3-8370-0876-0, http://qemu-buch.de
Configuration Management
- Puppet-virt - Puppet Module for Virtualization Management
Conversion
- Converting VMware guests to libvirt/KVM guests - Blog entry showing how to convert a VMware guest domain to a libvirt/KVM guest domain
Guest Management
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.
CGroups
CPU
- Guest CPU model configuration with QEMU/KVM
- Guest CPU affinity and NUMA placement on host with QEMU/KVM
Guest device Configuration
Virtio
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
Networking
Concepts
- Virtual Networking : Read This First - Introduces the concepts and ideas used in libvirts' networking for guests
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
Perl
- Sys-Virt - Daniel Berrange's perl module for managing guests
Provisioning
Cobbler
- cucumber-vhost - Automatic provisioning with Cobbler and Cucumber
Foreman
- Foreman - Automatic provisioning with Foreman and libvirt
Remote Management
CIM
QPID
Security
Host Security
SSH
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
Storage
iSCSI
QCow2 disk encryption
Disk and Memory Snapshots
Third Party Libvirt Applications
- Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) - Cloud Computing / Infrastructure as a Service Platform based on Libvirt API
Other
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