Linux Virtualization Operations

Internal

• Linux Virtualization

Commands

virsh

virt-install	guestmount	guestunmount	virt-builder	virt-cat	virt-filesystems	virt-inspector
libguestfs	virt-copy-in	virt-copy-out	virt-customize	virt-df	virt-diff	virt-edit	virt-format
virt-log	virt-ls	virt-make-fs	virt-p2v	virt-rescue	virt-resize	virt-sparsify	virt-sysprep
virt-tar-out	virt-tar-in	virt-top	virt-v2v	virt-viewer	virt-what	virt-who	virt-xml-validate
qemu-img

Guest Operations

• List Available Guests
• Information about a Guest
• Start/Stop Guests
• Configure a Guest to Automatically Start at Boot
• Connect to Guest
• Create a Guest
• Add Storage to Guests
• Reconfigure Guest Memory
• Reconfigure Guest CPUs
• Remove Storage from Guest
• Reconfigure Guest Network
• Clone a Guest
• Snapshot:
  • Manual Low-Level Export/Import
  • Snapshot with virsh shapshot
• Remove a Guest

Virtualization Host Storage Operations

Virtualization Host Storage Pool Operations

• Storage Pool Info
• Disk-Based Storage Pool Configuration
• Partition-Based Storage Pool Configuration
• Directory-Based Storage Pool Configuration
• LVM-Based Storage Pool Configuration
• Storage Pool Deletion

Virtualization Host Storage Volume Operations

• Storage Volume Info
• Storage Volume Creation:
  • With vol-create-as
  • With vol-create
  • Placing an ISO Image in a Directory-Based Storage Pool
• Storage Volume Cloning
• Storage Volume Snapshot with qemu-img
• Storage Volume Renaming
• Storage Volume Deletion
• Storage Volume Removal, Off-Line Archival and Restoration

Virtualization Host Network Operations

• Virtual Network Info
• Virtual Network Creation
• Virtual Network Configuration
  • Modifying the Range of the DHCP Server for a Virtual Network
• Virtual Network Lifecycle (Start/Stop)
• Attaching a Guest Directly to a Virtualization Host Network Interface with a macvtap Driver
• Bridged Networking Configuration