"...But if the concept of abstraction is so mundane in IT, what explains the increasing fascination with virtualization in recent years? The trend is even more hard-core in data centers, where virtualization is deeply ingrained in the development strategy of these environments since the mid-2000s. And the infatuation continues to grow....Accordingly, these facilities have been assaulted with virtual servers, virtual networks, virtual storage, virtual appliances, and other "V-technologies" that promise relief from the cuffs of reality." | ||
| -- Gustavo A. A. Santana, Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals | ||
In Chapter 3, Creating Containers, we explored the creation, configuration, and control of LXC containers using Proxmox VE. In this chapter, we turn our focus to KVM-QEMU virtual machine creation and control with Proxmox VE.
While we contrasted virtual machines with containers in Chapter 1, Proxmox VE Fundamentals, we will take this opportunity to dive...