Part V Managing Virtual Machines with QEMU #
- 26 QEMU Overview
QEMU is a fast, cross-platform open source machine emulator which can emulate a huge number of hardware architectures for you. QEMU lets you run a complete unmodified operating system (VM Guest) on top of your existing system (VM Host Server).
- 27 Setting Up a KVM VM Host Server
This section documents how to set up and use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 as a QEMU-KVM based virtual machine host.
- 28 Guest Installation
The
libvirt
-based tools such asvirt-manager
andvirt-install
offer convenient interfaces to set up and manage virtual machines. They act as a kind of wrapper for theqemu-system-ARCH
command. However, it is also possible to useqemu-system-ARCH
directly without usinglibvirt
-based tools.- 29 Running Virtual Machines with qemu-system-ARCH
Once you have a virtual disk image ready (for more information on disk images, see Section 28.2, “Managing Disk Images with qemu-img”), it is time to start the related virtual machine. Section 28.1, “Basic Installation with qemu-system-ARCH” introduced simple commands to install and run a VM Guest. …
- 30 Virtual Machine Administration Using QEMU Monitor
When QEMU is running, a monitor console is provided for performing interaction with the user. Using the commands available in the monitor console, it is possible to inspect the running operating system, change removable media, take screenshots or audio grabs and control other aspects of the virtual …