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Day 1

  • Overview of the virtualization ecosystem
  • History of QEMU development
  • CPU features relevant to virtualization
  • Installing QEMU via packages
  • Installing QEMU from source code
  • Full-system emulators
  • Utilizing the QEMU console
  • Available machine types and peripheral devices
  • VirtIO
  • Guest drivers
  • Disk image formats
  • Managing virtual machine snapshots
  • Networking configurations in virtual machines
  • Graphics adapters
  • Audio devices
  • Nested virtualization
  • User-level emulators
  • Registration of foreign binaries via binfmt-misc
  • Cross-architecture chroots and containers

Day 2

  • The role of Libvirt within 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 the "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
  • Utilizing the "virt-manager" graphical application to create and manage 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 configurations 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 live demonstrations, are provided in remote courses):

  • Running Mac OS X on KVM (if at least one participant has a Mac with Linux installed)
  • 3D graphics support via VirGL
  • 3D graphics with Intel GPU (requires Broadwell, Skylake, or early Kaby Lake 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, ideally AMD)
  • USB device pass-through

Requirements

General Linux command line proficiency, working knowledge of TCP/IP

 14 Hours

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