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Course Outline
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
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!
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lost of hands on excercises (labs)