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Managing KVM virtual machines

Managing KVM virtual machines - Ansible Tutorial

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Managing KVM virtual machines

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In this lesson, you will learn how to manage KVM virtual machines with Ansible. So before we start, let's have a look at the procedure. KVM virtual machines are deployed on top of the Linux internal KVM hypervisor. This KVM hypervisor is a part of the Linux kernel. The only requirement is that you have a CPU that supports hypervisor extensions. Then the KVM virtual machines themselves are managed by libvirt-d, and libvirt-d is a daemon that must be running on a managed host. The foundation of any KVM virtual machine is twofold. There's an XML configuration file that needs to be created in ETC libvirt-qemu, and there is a disk file in var lib libvirt images. When you create a virtual machine, a fresh installation can be done, or an existing disk file can be used as a template. And the following demo shows how to use existing disk files using the virt module. You should know a little bit about the background of this use case. In this use case, we are going to look at my lab machine…

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