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Mastering KVM Virtualization

You're reading from   Mastering KVM Virtualization Dive in to the cutting edge techniques of Linux KVM virtualization, and build the virtualization solutions your datacentre demands

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399054
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding Linux Virtualization 2. KVM Internals FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Standalone KVM Virtualization 4. Getting Started with libvirt and Creating Your First Virtual Machines 5. Network and Storage 6. Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management 7. Templates and Snapshots 8. Kimchi – An HTML5-Based Management Tool for KVM/libvirt 9. Software-Defined Networking for KVM Virtualization 10. Installing and Configuring the Virtual Datacenter Using oVirt 11. Starting Your First Virtual Machine in oVirt 12. Deploying OpenStack Private Cloud backed by KVM Virtualization 13. Performance Tuning and Best Practices in KVM 14. V2V and P2V Migration Tools A. Converting a Virtual Machine into a Hypervisor Index

Can we convert any physical computers to virtual using virt-v2v?

Many a times, you must have thought whether it is possible to convert a physical computer to a virtual system using virt-v2v. It depends on the physical system configuration. I have tested converting many physical computers and it worked absolutely fine. However, there are some restrictions that apply to P2V. To perform a P2V conversion, your physical system must have the following prerequisites:

  • They must have at least 512 MB of RAM.
  • They cannot have any volumes larger than 2040 GB.
  • virt-v2v supports P2V conversion for computers based on the x86 or x86_64 architecture. You won't able able convert computers with Itanium architecture–based operating systems.
  • Computers with their root filesystem root on a software RAID md device cannot be converted to virtual machines.
  • The operating system installed on the computer must be supported to run as a guest on KVM.
  • They must have at least one Ethernet connection.

If your physical...

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