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libvirt: Connection authentication
https://libvirt.org/auth.html
When connecting to libvirt, some connections may require client authentication before allowing use of the APIs. The set of possible authentication mechanisms is administrator controlled, independent of applications using libvirt. Once authenticated, libvirt can apply fine grained access control. To the operations performed by a client. UNIX socket PolicyKit auth. The file path specified by the $LIBVIRT AUTH FILE environment variable. The file path specified by the "authfile=/some/file" URI query parameter.
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libvirt: Connection URIs
http://libvirt.org/uri.html
Specifying URIs to libvirt. Specifying URIs to virsh, virt-manager and virt-install. Qemu:/ /. QEMU and KVM URIs. Test:/ /. Test URIs. Other and legacy URI formats. NULL and empty string URIs. Since libvirt supports many different kinds of virtualization (often referred to as "drivers" or "hypervisors"), we need a way to be able to specify which driver a connection refers to. Additionally we may want to refer to a driver on a remote machine over the network. This page documents libvirt URIs. Is NULL, the...
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libvirt: Domain XML format
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html
Element and attribute overview. CPU model and topology. Hard drives, floppy disks, CDROMs. USB / PCI / SCSI devices. Block / character devices. Direct attachment to physical interface. Setting the NIC model. Setting NIC driver-specific options. Setting network backend-specific options. Overriding the target element. Interface ROM BIOS configuration. Setting up a network backend in a driver domain. Setting VLAN tag (on supported network types only). Modifying virtual link state. It has two attributes, the.
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libvirt blockcommit: shorten disk image chain by live merging the current active disk content | Kashyap Chamarthy
https://kashyapc.com/2014/10/07/libvirt-blockcommit-shorten-disk-image-chain-by-live-merging-the-current-active-disk-content
Libvirt: default network conflicts (not anymore). LinuxCon/KVMForum/CloudOpen Eu 2014 →. October 7, 2014 · 2:45 pm. Libvirt blockcommit: shorten disk image chain by live merging the current active disk content. When using QCOW2-based external snapshots, it is desirable to reduce an entire disk image chain to a single disk to retain performance and increase while the guest is running. Upstream QEMU and libvirt has recently acquired the ability to do that. Relevant git commits for QEMU. Virsh domblklist vm...
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libvirt: Storage Management
http://libvirt.org/storage.html
VMware Workstation / Player. Libvirt provides storage management on the physical host through storage pools and volumes. A storage pool is a quantity of storage set aside by an administrator, often a dedicated storage administrator, for use by virtual machines. Storage pools are divided into storage volumes either by the storage administrator or the system administrator, and the volumes are assigned to VMs as block devices. Libvirt supports the following storage pool types:. A pool with a type of. When l...
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libvirt: Documentation
http://www.libvirt.org/docs.html
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libvirt: Parallels Cloud Server driver
http://libvirt.org/drvparallels.html
VMware Workstation / Player. Parallels Cloud Server driver. Connections to the Parallels Cloud Server driver. Example guest domain XML configuration. The libvirt Parallels driver can manage Parallels Cloud Server starting from version 6.0. The Parallels Cloud Server. Connections to the Parallels Cloud Server driver. The libvirt Parallels driver is a single-instance privileged driver, with a driver name of 'parallels'. Some example connection URIs for the libvirt driver are:. Domain type='parallels' name ...
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libvirt: IBM PowerVM hypervisor driver (phyp)
http://libvirt.org/drvphyp.html
VMware Workstation / Player. IBM PowerVM hypervisor driver (phyp). Connections to the PowerVM driver. The IBM PowerVM driver can manage both HMC and IVM PowerVM guests. VIOS connections are tunneled through HMC. Connections to the PowerVM driver. Some example remote connection URIs for the driver are:. Phyp:/ user@hmc/system (HMC connection) phyp:/ user@ivm/system (IVM connection). Provided by the remote driver and libvirtd will not work, and you cannot use URIs like. Phyp ssh:/ example.com.
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libvirt: Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor driver
http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html
VMware Workstation / Player. Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor driver. Connections to the Microsoft Hyper-V driver. The libvirt Microsoft Hyper-V driver can manage Hyper-V 2008 R2. Connections to the Microsoft Hyper-V driver. Some example remote connection URIs for the driver are:. Hyperv:/ example-hyperv.com (over HTTPS) hyperv:/ example-hyperv.com/? Provided by the remote driver and libvirtd will not work, and you cannot use URIs like. Hyperv ssh:/ example.com. URIs have this general form (. Authentication ...