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I would recommend reading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization docs. |
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They are the best overview of libvirtd and friends. |
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Then use the Web site to read the fine-grained documentation for things |
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like the network, domain and storage XML formats so that you can easily |
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configure those things directly from virsh. |
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On Dec 3, 2012 9:00 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz> |
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> wrote: |
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> > Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: |
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> >> So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with |
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> >> VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a |
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> >> wrapper around other virt models. |
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> >> |
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> >> Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool |
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> >> formats it supports? |
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> >> |
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> >> -- |
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> >> :wq |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? |
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> > In the second case you might look at [1] |
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> |
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> Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in |
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> enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining |
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> the compile-time factors, I was hoping for a way to simply ask |
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> libvirtd via virsh. Going that route gives me an approach that works |
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> weather I'm on Gentoo, Linux, Debian or whatever. |
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> |
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> > |
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> > You also might take a look at virt-manager (in portage) which is a gui |
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> > for libvirt that manages libvirt on your local machine an remote |
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> > machines (via ssh tunnel for example). |
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> |
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> I've played with virt-manager before. I could use it again, but at |
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> least part of this exercise is to learn libvirt and kvm using a |
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> spartan toolchain. So I'm trying to do everything I can via CLI. (I'm |
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> handy enough with Python that I could use the python API bindings, but |
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> I presumed virsh would be easier, if not simpler.) |
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> |
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> > I am really happy with virt-manager here, it work very well on you don't |
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> > need to remember all the virsh commands (which becomes pretty handy when |
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> > managing storage, virtual networks and creating vms) |
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> |
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> Yeah, I'm hoping to learn all those commands. I want to |
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> proof-of-concept an approach for a high-availability NFS server using |
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> VMs.[2] :) |
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> > |
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> > [1] http://libvirt.org/storage.html |
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> > |
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> [2] http://mmol-6453.livejournal.com/279980.html |
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> |
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> -- |
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> :wq |
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