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Course Outline
Day 1
- Overview of the virtualization ecosystem
- Evolution of QEMU development
- CPU features essential for virtualization
- Installing QEMU via packages
- Compiling and installing QEMU from source
- Full-system emulation
- Utilizing the QEMU console
- Available machine types and peripheral devices
- VirtIO
- Guest drivers
- Disk image formats
- Managing virtual machine snapshots
- Networking configurations for virtual machines
- Graphics adapters
- Audio devices
- Nested virtualization
- User-level emulation
- Registering foreign binaries using 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 in headless mode
- QXL video card and SPICE display
- Available SPICE viewers
- Creating virtual machines using "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
- Utilizing the "virt-manager" graphical application for creating and managing virtual machines
- Editing virtual machine configurations and libvirt settings with the low-level "virsh" tool
- Using libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep) to manipulate disk image contents
- Networking and firewall management in libvirt
- Remote access to libvirt
- Overview of web-based frontends for libvirt
- Key highlights from recent KVM-related conferences
Bonus topics available in classroom sessions only (i.e., only short descriptions, not demonstrations, are available in remote courses):
- Running Mac OS X in KVM (requires at least one participant to have a Mac with Linux installed)
- 3D graphics support with VirGL
- 3D graphics with Intel GPU (requires 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 (requires a desktop with two video cards, preferably AMD)
- USB device pass-through
Requirements
General Linux command line proficiency, working TCP/IP knowledge
14 Hours
Testimonials (3)
The knowledge and the patience from the trainer to answer to our questions.
Calin Avram - REGNOLOGY ROMANIA S.R.L.
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The availability of the virtual desktop as form of sandbox for the participants to tinker with is great!
Benedict - Questronix Corporation
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lost of hands on excercises (labs)