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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

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