Provisioning new VM’s (guests) using “virt-install” binary is straight forward. virt-install can be run in interactive or non-interactive mode. This command have more options but easy to remember since those are very meaningful. This article is going to demonstrate the VM creation using virt-install tool in non-interactive mode. You can also use GUI (VMM – […]
Linux KVM
RHEL 7.2 – Configuring KVM hosts – Part 3
KVM hosts needs to be prepared to store and provide the network access to the guest machines. In last article ,we have seen KVM package installation and VMM(virtual Machine Manager) package installation. Once you have installed the packages, you need to create the filesystem to store the virtual machines images (/var/lib/libvirt/images which is the default storage […]
Redhat Enterprise Linux – KVM Installation Part 2
This article will demonstrates that how to install the KVM (kernel-based virtual Machines) packages on Redhat enterprise Linux 7.2 . We must have “yum repository” to install the KVM packages and it’s dependencies. There are many GUI tools available to manage the KVM. VMM (Virtual Machine Manager) is famous GUI tool which was developed by […]
Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) – Overview Part 1
KVM is free open source full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. After the cloud revolution, KVM(Kernel Based Virtual Machine) Virtualization is a hot topic in the industry. Most of the cloud technologies will prefer to use the KVM hypervisors over XEN due to it’s simplicity. Redhat and Ubuntu’s default hypervisor is KVM. Contrast to these vendors, Oracle Linux […]