libvirt
This section documents how to set up and use openSUSE Leap 15.1 as a virtual machine host.
A VM Guest system needs some means to communicate either with other VM Guest systems or with a local network. The network interface to the VM Guest system is made of a split device driver, which means that any virtual Ethernet device has a corresponding network interface in Dom0. This interface is s…
Apart from using the recommended libvirt
library
(Part II, “Managing Virtual Machines with libvirt
”), you can manage Xen guest
domains with the xl
tool from the command line.
The documentation in this section, describes advanced management tasks and configuration options that might help technology innovators implement leading-edge virtualization solutions. It is provided as a courtesy and does not imply that all documented options and tasks are supported by Novell, Inc.
This section introduces basic information about XenStore, its role in the Xen environment, the directory structure of files used by XenStore, and the description of XenStore's commands.
Setting up two Xen hosts as a failover system has several advantages compared to a setup where every server runs on dedicated hardware.