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Virtualization short cuts for noobs
Introduction
Purpose
Scope
Acronyms, descriptions
References
- http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Bridging_Network_Interfaces
- http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM#Networking_2
- Shows direct and indirect bridging.
Operating Environment
Which packages you need in order to run virtualization.
Storage
- File based
- LVM Based
- NFS based
- iSCSI
Network
Network configuration needs.
- Bridging
- Direct
- NAT
- NAT/Route
Administration
virsch
virsh help lists the supported commands.
Virsh operations commands of interest
- shutdown
- shutdown the domain.
- destroy
- as if you pulled the power cord, preferably use 'halt'.
- reboot
- reboot the domain.
- undefine
- remove all references to the domain. (Note; not sure if it is actually *all*).
- dumpxml
- list
- List the active domains.
Virsh network commands of interest
- domifstat
- interface statistics.
- virsh domifstat z3 vif7.0
- attach-interface
- attach a network interface.
- virsh attach-interface z3 bridge eth1 --target eth1 --mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
- net-list
- list networks.
virt-install
virt-mananger
remote management
Creating DomUs
Creating a CentOS 5.5 DomU
source:NFS, storage:LVM network:bridge;4
virt-install -p --name=z4 --ram=512 --vcpus=1 --disk path=/dev/loom/z4 --os-type=linux
--os-variant=rhel5 --location=nfs:192.168.42.132:/exports/isos/centos55 -x
"ks=nfs:192.168.42.132:/exports/ks/anaconda-ks.cfg ip=192.168.42.31 netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.42.132 dns=192.168.42.32"