Virtualization Guide
- About This Manual
- I Introduction
- II Managing Virtual Machines with
libvirt - III Hypervisor-Independent Features
- IV Managing Virtual Machines with Xen
- 17 Setting Up a Virtual Machine Host
- 18 Virtual Networking
- 19 Managing a Virtualization Environment
- 20 Block Devices in Xen
- 21 Virtualization: Configuration Options and Settings
- 22 Administrative Tasks
- 23 XenStore: Configuration Database Shared between Domains
- 24 Xen as a High-Availability Virtualization Host
- V Managing Virtual Machines with QEMU
- VI Managing Virtual Machines with LXC
- Glossary
- A Appendix
- B XM, XL Toolstacks and Libvirt framework
- C GNU Licenses
About This Manual
This manual offers an introduction to setting up and managing
virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), Xen, and
Linux Containers (LXC) on openSUSE Leap. The first part introduces the
different virtualization solutions by describing their requirements, their
installations and SUSE's support status. The second part deals with
managing VM Guests and VM Host Servers with libvirt. The following
parts describe various administration tasks and practices and the last
three parts deal with hypervisor-specific topics.
1 Available Documentation #
Note: Online Documentation and Latest Updates
Documentation for our products is available at http://doc.opensuse.org/, where you can also find the latest updates, and browse or download the documentation in various formats.
In addition, the product documentation
is usually available in your installed system under
/usr/share/doc/manual.
The following documentation is available for this product:
- Book “Start-Up”
This manual will see you through your initial contact with openSUSE® Leap. Check out the various parts of this manual to learn how to install, use and enjoy your system.
- Book “Reference”
Covers system administration tasks like maintaining, monitoring and customizing an initially installed system.
- Virtualization Guide
Describes virtualization technology in general, and introduces libvirt—the unified interface to virtualization—and detailed information on specific hypervisors.
- Book “AutoYaST”
AutoYaST is a system for installing one or more openSUSE Leap systems automatically and without user intervention, using an AutoYaST profile that contains installation and configuration data. The manual guides you through the basic steps of auto-installation: preparation, installation, and configuration.
- Book “Security Guide”
Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network security aspects. Shows how to use the product inherent security software like AppArmor or the auditing system that reliably collects information about any security-relevant events.
- Book “System Analysis and Tuning Guide”
An administrator's guide for problem detection, resolution and optimization. Find how to inspect and optimize your system by means of monitoring tools and how to efficiently manage resources. Also contains an overview of common problems and solutions and of additional help and documentation resources.
- Book “GNOME User Guide”
Introduces the GNOME desktop of openSUSE Leap. It guides you through using and configuring the desktop and helps you perform key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users who want to make efficient use of GNOME as their default desktop.
2 Feedback #
Several feedback channels are available:
- Bug Reports
To report bugs for openSUSE Leap, go to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/, log in, and click .
For feedback on the documentation of this product, you can also send a mail to
doc-team@suse.com. Make sure to include the document title, the product version and the publication date of the documentation. To report errors or suggest enhancements, provide a concise description of the problem and refer to the respective section number and page (or URL).
3 Documentation Conventions #
The following notices and typographical conventions are used in this documentation:
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PATH: the environment variable PATHls,--help: commands, options, and parametersuser: users or groupspackage name : name of a package
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Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a chapter in another manual.
Commands that must be run with
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