In my opinion, template is the most useful feature in virtualization technology. After creating one fully installed VM, you can create several temporary VMs from the original without spend lots of hours or lots of disk space. In LVM environment, you can use ‘snapshot’ feature of lvcreate command. But, LVM volume is not easy to [...]

When you run KVM-based virtual machine, you can specify ‘-startdate’ option. What format we can use and what actions are happening inside the qemu-kvm. Options are checked in main() function in vl.c. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 [...]

If you are going to run virtualized host as a web server or some services for the clients, the systems should be accessible from the outside. Unfortunately, the default network configuration in KVM is NAT (Network Address Translation). It is good for some VMs who will co-work with other VMs, but for the server, it [...]

To test some problems usually I have to have two machines which is not easy to have. Especially if I have to configure it for each version, RHEL4, RHEL5, Fedora, etc. Virtualzation comes here to solve those kinds of difficulty. But, just installing new operating system each time is also not a perfect solution. You [...]