Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: KVM Virtualization Basics
Chapter 1: Understanding Linux Virtualization
Linux virtualization and how it all started 4
Types of virtualization 6
Using the hypervisor/virtual machine manager 9
Type 1 and type 2 hypervisors 10
Open source virtualization projects 11
Xen 12
KVM 13
What Linux virtualization offers you in the cloud14
Summary15
Questions16
Further reading16
Chapter 2: KVM as a Virtualization Solution
Virtualization as a concept18
Virtualized versus physical environments 18
Why is virtualization so important? 20
Hardware requirements for virtualization 21
Software requirements for virtualization 24
The internal workings of libvirt, QEMU, and KVM 30
libvirt 30
QEMU 38
QEMU – KVM internals 41 ...
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