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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

Managing KVM virtualization infrastructure using kimchi WebUI


To access the Kimchi WebUI, open your Web browser and type https://<IP/FQDN of your host>:8001.

Proceed past any SSL warnings and continue to the interface. You should see something similar to the following screenshot:

Kimchi login panel

By default, Kimchi uses PAM for authenticating users, so you can log in with the credentials of the root user. You can also login as other local users available on the system, but they will not see any virtual machines unless required permissions are granted.

Once you are logged in as a root user, you should be able to see a screen like the following screenshot, listing all guest virtual machines defined on the host. It displays resource utilization for the running virtual machines, you have buttons to perform shutdown, restart, and connect to console by clicking on action:

Guests tab in Kimchi WebUI

The small button located at the right-hand corner, with the power icon, indicates a virtual machine...

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