In Chapter 3, Setting Up Standalone KVM Virtualization, you installed and started the libvirtd services. You were also introduced to the libvirt tools virt-manager
and virsh
, which help you manage virtual machines.
New users always prefer the GUI rather than text-based commands. Hence we are starting with virt-manager. We also think understanding virt-manager will fast-forward the learning process of managing virtual machines using libvirt and later with virsh
. Whenever possible we will present you with the equivalent virsh
command so that you can try and learn both virt-manager and virsh
.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
All about virt-manager
Default virtual storage and network configurations
Various guest installations methods (PXE/ISO/NETWORK/IMPORT)
Using the
virt-builder
andoz
utilities to rapidly create multiple VMs