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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
  • Full-system emulation
  • 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 emulation
  • Registering foreign binaries via 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 using "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
  • Creating and running virtual machines with the "virt-manager" graphical interface
  • Editing virtual machine configuration and Libvirt settings with the low-level "virsh" tool
  • Manipulating disk image contents using libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep)
  • Networking and firewall configuration in Libvirt
  • Remote access to Libvirt
  • Overview of web-based frontends for Libvirt
  • Highlights from recent KVM-related conferences

Additional topics available only in classroom settings (i.e., only short descriptions, not demonstrations, are provided in remote courses):

  • Running Mac OS X on KVM (requires at least one participant with a Mac running Linux)
  • 3D graphics with VirGL
  • 3D graphics with Intel GPU (Broadwell, Skylake, or early Kabylake families, i.e., 5th-7th generation, but 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 passthrough

Requirements

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

 14 Hours

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