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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

Internal workings of libvirt


Let me give some details about the following libvirt source code. If you really want to know more about the implementation, it is good to poke around in the libvirt source code. Get the libvirt source code from the libvirt Git repository:

[root@node]# git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git

Once you clone the repo, you can see the following hierarchy of files in the repo:

libvirt code is based on the C programming language; however, libvirt has language bindings in different languages such as C#, Java, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and so on. For more details on these bindings, please refer to: https://libvirt.org/bindings.html. The main (and few) directories in the source code are docs, daemon, src, and so on. The libvirt project is well documented and the documentation is available in the source code repo and also at http://libvirt.org.

Let us move on. If we look at the libvirt internals, we can see libvirt operates or starts the connection path based on driver...

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Mastering KVM Virtualization
Published in: Aug 2016
Publisher: Packt
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