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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam K. Dean Adam K. Dean
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup 2. Remote Administration with SSH FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using virsh and virt-install

virsh and virt-install are good tools for individuals who are getting started with VMs on Linux. It sounds a bit old hat now, but if you can do something well on the command line, you'll wonder why you ever needed a clicky-button GUI to do the job for you.

When we talk about clients in this way, what we're referring to are frontends to the libvirt library, which is a C toolkit that was designed to make interacting with the kernel's virtualization functionality easier.

virsh and virt-install talk to libvirt, which, in turn, talks to the kernel.

Getting ready

SSH to your Ubuntu VM, and then install the virtinst, libvirt-clients, libvirt-bin, and libvirt-daemon packages:

$ vagrant...
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