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Chapter 6, Section 1: Virtualization

Explain what virtualization is, explain KVM, QEMU, libvirt.
Explain benefits of virtulalization.
Add virtualization diagram
Explain kickstart

Checking Virtualization support

Example of using lscpu for establishing virtualization support + grep vmx/svm on /proc/cpuinfo
Installing virtualization yum groups
Explain the virtual routing virbr0 (NAT, etc)
Explain storage pool and storage volume
Explain virtualization management tool

Using Virtual Machine manager

Using virtual machine manager/virsh/virt-manager, using virt-install

root@ie networks]# cat default.xml default [root@ie networks]# pwd /usr/share/libvirt/networks [root@ie networks]# ls default.xml

Exmaples of creating virtual networks, storage pools

Configuring FTP Server as yum repo

yum install -y vsftpd
local_root=...
firewall-cmd --add-service=ftp --permanent ; firewall-cmd --reload
/var/ftp/pub/...
configuring yum file

Creating a bridge

example of creating bridge
brctl to show bridges (brctl show br0)

installing vm with GUI (virt manager) or through kickstart installation method

How to setup kickstart via anacoda-ks.cfg
add url line, url --url="ftp://ip/pub/rhel7/..."
system-config-kickstart tool can be used
ksvalidator example

wget utility

wget examples