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Course Outline
Day 1
- An overview of the virtualization ecosystem
- History 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
- Machine types and peripheral device options
- VirtIO framework
- Guest drivers
- Disk image formats
- Managing virtual machine snapshots
- Networking configurations for virtual machines
- Graphics adapters
- Audio device handling
- 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 in headless mode
- QXL video card and SPICE display configuration
- Available SPICE viewers
- Creating virtual machines using 'virt-install' and 'virt-clone' command-line tools
- Creating and managing virtual machines with the 'virt-manager' graphical interface
- Editing virtual machine configurations and Libvirt settings using the 'virsh' low-level tool
- Manipulating disk image contents with Libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep)
- Networking and firewall rules within Libvirt
- Remote access to Libvirt
- Overview of web-based frontends for Libvirt
- Key takeaways from recent KVM-related conferences
Additional topics available exclusively in classroom settings (i.e., these are described briefly but not demonstrated in remote courses):
- Running Mac OS X under KVM (requires at least one participant to have a Mac with Linux installed)
- 3D graphics acceleration with VirGL
- 3D graphics with Intel GPUs (specifically Broadwell, Skylake, or early Kaby Lake families, i.e., 5th-7th generation, or later) using igvtg, or equivalent 'mediated passthrough' for NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla cards
- PCI device passthrough (requires a desktop with two video cards, preferably AMD)
- USB device passthrough
Requirements
Proficiency in general Linux command line operations and a solid understanding of TCP/IP networking.
14 Hours
Testimonials (3)
The knowledge and the patience from the trainer to answer to our questions.
Calin Avram - REGNOLOGY ROMANIA S.R.L.
Course - Deploying Kubernetes Applications with Helm
The availability of the virtual desktop as form of sandbox for the participants to tinker with is great!
Benedict - Questronix Corporation
Course - OpenShift 4 for Administrators
lost of hands on excercises (labs)
