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Course Outline
Day 1
- An overview of the virtualisation ecosystem
- The history and evolution of QEMU development
- CPU features essential for virtualisation
- Installing QEMU via package managers
- Compiling and installing QEMU from source code
- Full-system emulation techniques
- Navigating the QEMU console
- Exploring available machine types and peripheral devices
- Understanding VirtIO
- Guest driver implementations
- Disk image format options
- Managing virtual machine snapshots
- Networking configurations for virtual machines
- Graphics adapter options
- Audio device emulation
- Implementing nested virtualisation
- User-level emulation strategies
- Registering foreign binaries using binfmt_misc
- Setting up cross-architecture chroots and containers
Day 2
- The pivotal role of Libvirt within the virtualisation ecosystem
- Supported hypervisors and container technologies
- Understanding the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
- Running QEMU in headless mode
- Configuring the QXL video card and SPICE display
- Overview of available SPICE viewers
- Creating virtual machines using "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
- Utilising the "virt-manager" graphical interface for virtual machine management
- Editing virtual machine configurations and libvirt settings via the "virsh" low-level tool
- Manipulating disk image contents using libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep)
- Network and firewall management within libvirt
- Remote access to libvirt services
- Survey of web-based frontends for libvirt
- Key takeaways from recent KVM-related conferences
Additional topics available exclusively in classroom settings (note: only descriptions are provided for remote courses, not live demonstrations):
- Running Mac OS X under KVM (requires at least one participant to have a Mac with Linux installed)
- 3D graphics acceleration using VirGL
- 3D graphics via Intel GPU (must be Broadwell, Skylake, or early Kabylake family, i.e., 5th-7th generation, not newer) with igvtg, or equivalent "mediated passthrough" for NVidia Quadro and Tesla cards
- Video card passthrough (requires a desktop with two video cards, preferably AMD)
- USB device pass-through
Requirements
Proficiency in general Linux command-line operations and a working knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
14 Hours
Testimonials (3)
About the microservices and how to maintenance kubernetes
Yufri Isnaini Rochmat Maulana - Bank Indonesia
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The knowledge and the patience from the trainer to answer to our questions.
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The availability of the virtual desktop as form of sandbox for the participants to tinker with is great!
