SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
Describes virtualization technology in general, and introduces libvirt—the unified interface to virtualization—and detailed information on specific hypervisors.
Publication Date:
June 18, 2025
- About This Manual
- I Introduction
- II Managing Virtual Machines with
libvirt- 8 Starting and Stopping
libvirtd - 9 Guest Installation
- 10 Basic VM Guest Management
- 11 Connecting and Authorizing
- 12 Managing Storage
- 13 Managing Networks
- 14 Configuring Virtual Machines
- 14.1 Machine Setup
- 14.2 Storage
- 14.3 Controllers
- 14.4 Networking
- 14.5 Enabling Seamless and Synchronized Mouse Pointer Movement
- 14.6 Adding a CD/DVD-ROM Device with Virtual Machine Manager
- 14.7 Adding a Floppy Device with Virtual Machine Manager
- 14.8 Ejecting and Changing Floppy or CD/DVD-ROM Media with Virtual Machine Manager
- 14.9 Editing VM Configuration with
virsh - 14.10 Changing the Machine Type with
virsh - 14.11 Assigning a Host PCI Device to a VM Guest
- 14.12 Assigning a Host USB Device to a VM Guest
- 14.13 Adding SR-IOV Devices
- 14.14 Using Macvtap to Share VM Host Server Network Interfaces
- 14.15 Managing Guest Memory Allocation (Xen only)
- 14.16 Disabling a Memory Balloon Device
- 14.17 Configuring Multiple Monitors (Dual Head)
- 8 Starting and Stopping
- III Hypervisor-Independent Features
- IV Managing Virtual Machines with Xen
- 18 Setting Up a Virtual Machine Host
- 19 Virtual Networking
- 20 Managing a Virtualization Environment
- 21 Block Devices in Xen
- 22 Virtualization: Configuration Options and Settings
- 23 Administrative Tasks
- 24 XenStore: Configuration Database Shared between Domains
- 25 Xen as a High-Availability Virtualization Host
- V Managing Virtual Machines with QEMU
- 26 QEMU Overview
- 27 Setting Up a KVM VM Host Server
- 28 Guest Installation
- 29 Running Virtual Machines with qemu-system-ARCH
- 30 Virtual Machine Administration Using QEMU Monitor
- 30.1 Accessing Monitor Console
- 30.2 Getting Information about the Guest System
- 30.3 Changing VNC Password
- 30.4 Managing Devices
- 30.5 Controlling Keyboard and Mouse
- 30.6 Changing Available Memory
- 30.7 Dumping Virtual Machine Memory
- 30.8 Managing Virtual Machine Snapshots
- 30.9 Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machine Execution
- 30.10 Live Migration
- 30.11 QMP - QEMU Machine Protocol
- VI Managing Virtual Machines with LXC
- Glossary
- A Virtual Machine Drivers
- B Appendix
- C XM, XL Tool Stacks and Libvirt framework
- D GNU licenses
List of Figures
- 2.1 Xen Virtualization Architecture
- 3.1 KVM Virtualization Architecture
- 13.1 Connection Details
- 13.2 Create virtual network
- 13.3 Create virtual network
- 13.4 Create virtual network
- 14.1 View of a VM Guest
- 14.2 Overview details
- 14.3 VM Guest Title and Description
- 14.4 Performance
- 14.5 Statistics Charts
- 14.6 Processor View
- 14.7 Memory View
- 14.8 Boot Options
- 14.9 Add a New Storage
- 14.10 Add a New Controller
- 14.11 Add a New Controller
- 14.12 Adding a PCI Device
- 14.13 Adding a USB Device
- 23.1 Boot Loader Settings
- 27.1 Installing the KVM Hypervisor and Tools
- 27.2 Network Bridge
- 28.1 New 2 GB Partition in Guest YaST Partitioner
- 29.1 QEMU Window with SLES 11 SP3 as VM Guest
- 29.2 Configuring Network Bridge with YaST
- 29.3 QEMU VNC Session
- 29.4 Authentication Dialog in Vinagre
List of Tables
- 7.1 Feature Support—Host (
Dom0) - 7.2 Feature Support—Paravirtualized Guest
- 7.3 Feature Support—Fully Virtualized Guest
- 25.1 Xen Remote Storage
- C1 Notation Conventions
- C2 New Global Options
- C3 Common Options
- C4 Domain Management Removed Options
- C5 USB Devices Management Removed Options
- C6 CPU Management Removed options
- C7 Other Options
- C8
xlcreateChanged Options - C9
xmcreateRemoved Options - C10
xlcreateAdded Options - C11
xlconsoleAdded Options - C12
xminfoRemoved Options - C13
xmdump-coreRemoved Options - C14
xmlistRemoved Options - C15
xllistAdded Options - C16
xlmem-*Changed Options - C17
xmmigrateRemoved Options - C18
xlmigrateAdded Options - C19
xmrebootRemoved Options - C20
xlrebootAdded Options - C21
xlsaveAdded Options - C22
xlrestoreAdded Options - C23
xmshutdownRemoved Options - C24
xlshutdownAdded Options - C25
xltriggerChanged Options - C26
xmsched-creditRemoved Options - C27
xlsched-creditAdded Options - C28
xmsched-credit2Removed Options - C29
xlsched-credit2Added Options - C30
xmsched-sedfRemoved Options - C31
xlsched-sedfAdded Options - C32
xmcpupool-listRemoved Options - C33
xmcpupool-createRemoved Options - C34
xlpci-detachAdded Options - C35
xmblock-listRemoved Options - C36 Other Options
- C37 Network Options
- C38
xlnetwork-attachRemoved Options - C39 New Options
List of Examples
- 9.1 Loading Kernel and Initrd from HTTP Server
- 9.2 Example of a
virt-installcommand line - 10.1 Typical Output of
kvm_stat - 13.1 NAT Based Network
- 13.2 Routed Network
- 13.3 Isolated Network
- 13.4 Using an Existing Bridge on VM Host Server
- 14.1 Example XML Configuration File
- 20.1 Guest Domain Configuration File:
/etc/xen/sled12.cfg - 27.1 Exporting Host's File System with VirtFS
- 29.1 Restricted User-mode Networking
- 29.2 User-mode Networking with Custom IP Range
- 29.3 User-mode Networking with Network-boot and TFTP
- 29.4 User-mode Networking with Host Port Forwarding
- 29.5 Password Authentication
- 29.6 x509 Certificate Authentication
- 29.7 x509 Certificate and Password Authentication
- 29.8 SASL Authentication
- C1 Converting Xen Domain Configuration to
libvirt
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