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Day 1

  • Overview of the virtualization ecosystem
  • Evolution and 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
  • Available machine types and peripheral devices
  • VirtIO architecture
  • Guest drivers
  • Disk image formats
  • Managing virtual machine snapshots
  • Networking configuration 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

  • Libvirt's role within the virtualization ecosystem
  • Supported hypervisors and container technologies
  • QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
  • Running QEMU in headless mode
  • QXL video card and SPICE display integration
  • Overview of available SPICE viewers
  • Creating virtual machines using the "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
  • Managing and running virtual machines via the "virt-manager" graphical interface
  • Editing virtual machine configurations and libvirt settings using the "virsh" low-level utility
  • Manipulating disk image contents with libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep)
  • Networking and firewall management within libvirt
  • Remote access to libvirt
  • Survey of web-based frontends for libvirt
  • Key highlights from recent KVM-related conferences

Bonus topics available exclusively in classroom sessions (note: for remote courses, these topics are covered with short descriptions only, not demonstrations):

  • Running Mac OS X in KVM (subject to at least one participant having a Mac with Linux installed)
  • 3D graphics support with VirGL
  • 3D graphics with Intel GPUs (requires Broadwell, Skylake, or early Kabylake architectures, i.e., 5th–7th generation; not newer models) using 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 and working knowledge of TCP/IP.

 14 Hours

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