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Course Outline
Day 1
- "Big picture" of the virtualization ecosystem
- History of QEMU development
- CPU features related to virtualization
- Installing QEMU from packages
- Installing QEMU from source
- Full-system emulators
- Using the QEMU console
- Available machine types and peripheral devices
- VirtIO
- Guest drivers
- Disk image formats
- Managing virtual machine snapshots
- Networking in virtual machines
- Graphics adapters
- Audio devices
- Nested virtualization
- User-level emulators
- Registration of foreign binaries through binfmt-misc
- Cross-architecture chroots and containers
Day 2
- The role of Libvirt in the virtualization ecosystem
- Supported hypervisors and container technologies
- QEMU Machine protocol (QMP)
- Running QEMU headless
- QXL video card and SPICE display
- Available SPICE viewers
- Creating virtual machines with "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
- Using "virt-manager" graphical application to create and run virtual machines
- Editing virtual machine configuration and libvirt settings with "virsh" low-level tool
- Using libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep) to manipulate disk image contents
- Networking and firewall in libvirt
- Accessing libvirt remotely
- Overview of web-based frontends for libvirt
- Highlights from recent KVM-related conferences
Bonus topics available in classroom only (i.e. only short descriptions, not demonstrations, are available in remote courses):
- Running Mac OS X in KVM (if at least one participant has a Mac with Linux installed)
- 3D graphics with VirGL
- 3D graphics with Intel GPU (must be of Broadwell, Skylake or early Kabylake family, i.e. 5th-7th generation, not later) and igvtg, or the equivalent "mediated passthrough" for NVidia Quadro and Tesla cards
- Video card passthrough (if there is a desktop available with two video cards, ideally AMD)
- USB device pass-through
Requirements
General Linux command line skills, working TCP/IP knowledge
14 Hours
Delivery Options
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- Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
Private Group Prices RRP from £3800 online delivery, based on a group of 2 delegates, £1200 per additional delegate (excludes any certification / exam costs). We recommend a maximum group size of 12 for most learning events.
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