Appendix B. Creating Virtual Machines
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Virtualization System Requirements
- Installing Virtualization
- Setting Up the VM and Installing the Guest OS
- Introducing the
virshCommand - Starting and Stopping the Virtual Machine
- Modifying Dedicated Resources
- Performing Additional Actions
- Managing VMs with the
xmUtility
Introduced in Fedora Core 4 as a technology preview, virtualization is now a supported feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems (OS) to run on the same physical hardware inside virtual machines (VM). The operating systems can be the same OS, different versions of the same OS, or different OSes.
The benefits of virtualization include the following:
- Better use of hardware. ...
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