Virtualization Guide
- Preface
- I Introduction
- II Managing virtual machines with
libvirt- 7 Starting and stopping
libvirtd - 8 Preparing the VM Host Server
- 9 Guest installation
- 10 Basic VM Guest management
- 11 Connecting and authorizing
- 12 Advanced storage topics
- 13 Configuring virtual machines with Virtual Machine Manager
- 14 Configuring virtual machines with
virsh - 15 Managing virtual machines with Vagrant
- 16 Xen to KVM migration guide
- 7 Starting and stopping
- III Hypervisor-independent features
- IV Managing virtual machines with Xen
- 22 Setting up a virtual machine host
- 23 Virtual networking
- 24 Managing a virtualization environment
- 25 Block devices in Xen
- 26 Virtualization: configuration options and settings
- 27 Administrative tasks
- 28 XenStore: configuration database shared between domains
- 29 Xen as a high-availability virtualization host
- 30 Xen: converting a paravirtual (PV) guest into a fully virtual (FV/HVM) guest
- V Managing virtual machines with QEMU
- VI Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- A Configuring GPU Pass-Through for NVIDIA cards
- B GNU licenses
36 Integrated help and package documentation #Edit source
Various virtualization packages provide commands for managing many aspects of a virtualization host. It is not possible or expected to remember all options supported by these commands. A basic installation of a Xen or KVM host includes manual pages and integrated help for shell commands. The documentation sub-packages provide additional content beyond what is provided by the basic installation.
- Manual pages for shell commands
Most commands include a manual page that provides detailed information about the command, describes any options, and in some cases gives example command usage. For example, to see the manual for the
virt-installcommand type:>man virt-install- Integrated help for shell commands
Commands also include integrated help, providing more compact and topic-driven documentation. For example, to see a brief description of the
virt-installcommand type:>virt-install --helpIntegrated help can also be used to see the details of a specific option. For example, to see the sub-options supported by the disk option type:
>virt-install --disk help- Documentation sub-packages
Many of the virtualization packages provide additional content in their documentation sub-package. As an example, the libvirt-doc package contains all the documentation available at http://libvirt.org, plus sample code demonstrating the use of the libvirt C API. Use the
rpmcommand to view the contents of a documentation sub-package. For example, to see the contents of libvirt-doc:rpm -ql libvirt-doc