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Part IV. Administration

Administering virtualized systems

These chapters contain information for administering host and virtualized guests using tools included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Table of Contents

15. Server best practices
16. Security for virtualization
16.1. Storage security issues
16.2. SELinux and virtualization
16.3. SELinux
16.4. Virtualization firewall information
17. sVirt
17.1. Security and Virtualization
17.2. sVirt labeling
18. KVM live migration
18.1. Live migration requirements
18.2. Shared storage example: NFS for a simple migration
18.3. Live KVM migration with virsh
18.4. Migrating with virt-manager
19. Remote management of virtualized guests
19.1. Remote management with SSH
19.2. Remote management over TLS and SSL
19.3. Transport modes
20. Overcommitting with KVM
21. KSM
22. Advanced virtualization administration
22.1. Guest scheduling
22.2. Advanced memory management
22.3. Guest block I/O throttling
22.4. Guest network I/O throttling
23. Migrating to KVM from other hypervisors using virt-v2v
23.1. Preparing to convert a virtualized guest
23.2. Converting virtualized guests
23.2.1. virt-v2v
23.2.2. Converting a local Xen virtualized guest
23.2.3. Converting a remote Xen virtualized guest
23.2.4. Converting a VMware ESX virtualized guest
23.2.5. Converting a virtualized guest running Windows
23.3. Running converted virtualized guests
23.4. Configuration changes
23.4.1. Configuration changes for Linux virtualized guests
23.4.2. Configuration changes for Windows virtualized guests
24. Miscellaneous administration tasks
24.1. Automatically starting guests
24.2. Using qemu-img
24.3. Verifying virtualization extensions
24.4. Setting KVM processor affinities
24.5. Generating a new unique MAC address
24.6. Improving guest response time
24.7. Very Secure ftpd
24.8. Disable SMART disk monitoring for guests
24.9. Configuring a VNC Server
24.10. Gracefully shutting down guests
24.11. Virtual machine timer management with libvirt