KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy A Dell Technical White Paper Jose De la Rosa Dell Linux Engineering

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 10 1. Suspend the VM to be cloned. This is a requirement since it ensures that all data and network

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 11 # virt-top Show VM disk partitions: # virt-df vm1 Stop a VM (shutdown the OS): # virsh shutdo

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 12 You can now access the USB storage device directly from your VM at /dev/vdb. When you are done wi

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 13 Max memory: 1048576 kB Used memory: 524288 kB In our second example, let‟s increase the a

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 14 6.3 Disk capacity You can always add additional „disks‟ to your VMs by attaching additional file

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 15 Deleting a VM is a lot faster than creating one, just a few quick commands. Let‟s delete vm1-clon

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 2 THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 3 Contents 1. Introduction...

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 4 1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this document This document describes how to quickly setup and ma

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 5 2. Preparing your environment 2.1 Hardware You don‟t need a top-of-the-line PowerEdge server, a 2

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 6 2.4 OS Installation Source You need to have an OS installation source ready. You can either have

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 7 BOOTPROTO="dhcp" IPV6INIT="yes" IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes" NM_CONTROLLED=&q

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 8 # restorecon -R -v /vm-images Verify that the context was changed: # ls –aZ /vm-images drwxr-xr

Dell Inc. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy 9 This is the image file for the VM, the size is specified in GBs.  --graphics none This tells the