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Course Outline
Day 1
- Overview of the virtualization ecosystem
- History of QEMU development
- CPU features essential for virtualization
- Installing QEMU via packages
- Installing QEMU from source code
- Full-system emulation
- Navigating the QEMU console
- Available machine types and peripheral devices
- VirtIO technology
- Guest driver implementations
- Disk image formats
- Managing virtual machine snapshots
- Networking configuration for virtual machines
- Graphics adapter options
- Audio device support
- Nested virtualization techniques
- User-level emulation
- Registering foreign binaries using binfmt_misc
- Cross-architecture chroots and containers
Day 2
- The role of Libvirt in the virtualization landscape
- Supported hypervisors and container technologies
- QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
- Running QEMU in headless mode
- QXL video cards and SPICE display integration
- Available SPICE client viewers
- Creating virtual machines using "virt-install" and "virt-clone" command-line tools
- Utilizing the "virt-manager" graphical interface for virtual machine creation and management
- Editing virtual machine configurations and Libvirt settings with the "virsh" low-level utility
- Manipulating disk image contents using Libguestfs tools (guestfish, virt-sysprep)
- Networking and firewall management within Libvirt
- Remote access to Libvirt
- Survey of web-based frontends for Libvirt
- Key takeaways from recent KVM-focused conferences
Additional topics available exclusively in classroom settings (note: only brief descriptions, not live demonstrations, are provided for remote courses):
- Running Mac OS X on KVM (requires at least one participant with a Mac running Linux)
- 3D graphics acceleration with VirGL
- 3D graphics with Intel GPUs (specifically Broadwell, Skylake, or early Kaby Lake families, i.e., 5th–7th generation; later models are not supported) using igvtg, or the equivalent "mediated passthrough" for NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla cards
- Video card passthrough (requires a desktop with two video cards, preferably AMD)
- USB device passthrough
Requirements
Proficiency in general Linux command-line operations and working knowledge of TCP/IP networks
14 Hours
Testimonials (3)
About the microservices and how to maintenance kubernetes
Yufri Isnaini Rochmat Maulana - Bank Indonesia
Course - Advanced Platform Engineering: Scaling with Microservices and Kubernetes
The knowledge and the patience from the trainer to answer to our questions.
Calin Avram - REGNOLOGY ROMANIA S.R.L.
Course - Deploying Kubernetes Applications with Helm
The availability of the virtual desktop as form of sandbox for the participants to tinker with is great!
