December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
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Chapter 1. Working with KVM Guests
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing and configuring a KVM
- Configuring resources
- Building VMs
- Adding CPUs on the fly
- Adding RAM on the fly
- Adding disks on the fly
- Moving disks to another storage
- Moving VMs
- Backing up your VM metadata
Introduction
This book will attempt to show you how to deploy RHEL 7 systems without too much of a hassle. As this book is written with automation in mind, I will emphasize on command-line utilities rather than elaborating on its GUI counterparts, which are useless for automation.
This chapter explains how to build and manage KVM guests using the libvirt interface and various tools built around it. It will provide a brief overview on how to set up a KVM on RHEL and ...