Chapter 7: Virtual Machines: Installation, Configuration, and Life Cycle Management
In this chapter, we will discuss different ways of installing and configuring virtual machines (VMs)—from Command Prompt and/or a graphical user interface (GUI). We will delve deeper into some tools and utilities that we have already used (virt-manager, virt-install, oVirt) and build upon our knowledge gained from previous chapters. Then, we will have a lengthy discussion about VM migration, one of the most fundamental aspects of virtualization, as it's pretty much unimaginable to use virtualization without migration options. To be able to configure our environment for VM migration, we will also use topics discussed in Chapter 4, Libvirt Networking, and Chapter ...
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