Name: Mastering KVM Virtualization
Author: Humble Devassy Chirammal Prasad Mukhedkar Anil Vettathu
ISBN: 9781784396916

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Mastering KVM Virtualization

Humble Devassy Chirammal Prasad Mukhedkar Anil Vettathu

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Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Understanding Linux Virtualization
What is virtualization?
Why should I use Linux virtualization?
Types of virtualization
Operating system virtualization/partitioning
Hardware assisted virtualization
Introducing VMM/hypervisor
Open source virtualization projects
What Linux virtualization offers you in the cloud
Summary
Chapter 2. KVM Internals
Getting acquainted with libvirt and its implementation
Internal workings of libvirt
Time to think more about QEMU
KVM in action
Anonymous inodes and file structures
Execution flow of vCPU
Summary
Chapter 3. Setting Up Standalone KVM Virtualization
Getting acquainted with libvirt
Hardware configuration examples
Summary
Chapter 4. Getting Started with libvirt and Creating Your First Virtual Machines
Introducing virt-manager
Creating virtual machines using the Virtual Machine Manager
Introducing virt-install
Automated virtual machine deployment
Summary
Chapter 5. Network and Storage
Virtual networking
Virtual networking using libvirt
MacVTap
PCI passthrough
It s all about storage!
Summary
Chapter 6. Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management
QEMU guest agent
Virtual video cards and graphics
VM migration
Shared storage
Enabling lockd
Live or online migration
Summary
Chapter 7. Templates and Snapshots
Introducing virtual machine templates
Working with templates
Deploying virtual machines from a template
Deploying VMs using the clone provisioning method
Deploying VMs using the thin provisioning method
Snapshots
Summary
Chapter 8. Kimchi – An HTML5-Based Management Tool for KVM/libvirt
Libvirt Web API
Introduction to the Kimchi project
Setting up Kimchi server
Managing KVM virtualization infrastructure using kimchi WebUI
Creating virtual machines through Kimchi WebUI
Managing virtual machine through android phones
Summary
Chapter 9. Software-Defined Networking for KVM Virtualization
Introducing Software Defined Networking
Introducing Open vSwitch
Integrating KVM VMs and OVS
VLANs with Open vSwitch
Applying traffic rate limiting
Overlay networks
Configuring Open vSwitch tunnels with VxLan
Network port mirroring
Managing Open vSwitch using the OpenDaylight SDN controller
Basic Open vSwitch troubleshooting
Summary
Chapter 10. Installing and Configuring the Virtual Datacenter Using oVirt
Introducing oVirt
Installing the oVirt engine
Summary
Chapter 11. Starting Your First Virtual Machine in oVirt
Getting acquainted with oVirt data center and cluster
Creating storage domains
Creating logical networks
Creating and starting a virtual machine
What next?
Summary
Chapter 12. Deploying OpenStack Private Cloud backed by KVM Virtualization
OpenStack architecture
OpenStack deployment
Launching First Instance
Troubleshooting the virtualization layer of OpenStack
Accessing the instance configuration database
QEMU Monitor Protocol
Summary
Chapter 13. Performance Tuning and Best Practices in KVM
VirtIO
CPU tuning
Working with memory
Getting acquainted with Kernel Same Page merging
Tuning CPU and memory with NUMA
Disk and block I/O tuning
Networking tuning in KVM
KVM guest time-keeping best practices
Summary
Chapter 14. V2V and P2V Migration Tools
Introducing the virt-v2v utility
How does virt-v2v work?
VMware guest conversion
Xen guest conversion
Converting standalone KVM guests to an oVirt Virtualization platform and the OpenStack cloud
Troubleshooting virt-v2v related issues
Physical system to virtual conversion
Can we convert any physical computers to virtual using virt-v2v?
Converting virtual machines from unsupported virtualization platforms
Summary
Appendix A. Converting a Virtual Machine into a Hypervisor
Introducing nested KVM
How to enable nested KVM?
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