From 600aa3fa73dc7787cd360b49b7ae6420f1ce2a77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Simental Magana, Marcos" Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:09:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] clear-linux: Add information about kvm-host bundle. This commit adds general information about the kvm-host bundle content and how to enable/start some services that may be required when this bundle is installed. Signed-off-by: Simental Magana, Marcos --- source/clear-linux/bundles/kvm-host.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 source/clear-linux/bundles/kvm-host.rst diff --git a/source/clear-linux/bundles/kvm-host.rst b/source/clear-linux/bundles/kvm-host.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1c580b83 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/clear-linux/bundles/kvm-host.rst @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +.. _bdl-kvm-host: + +kvm-host +######## + +This bundle provides the software needed to run virtual machines. + +QEMU +==== + +|CL| provides :abbr:`QEMU (Quick Emulator)` to perform hardware virtualization. +When possible, qemu would be used together with +:abbr:`KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)` in order to run virtual machines at +near-native speed. + +For more information about how to use qemu, please refer to `qemu.org`_ + +virsh +===== + +|CL| provides the virsh program to manage `libvirt`_ guests and the hypervisor. +libvirtd management daemon is not enabled nor started by default. To enable +the hypervisor, perform the following commands as root. + +#. Enable the service to start every time the machine boots. + This step is optional + + .. code-block:: console + + # systemctl enable libvirtd.service + +#. Start the libvirtd management daemon service + + .. code-block:: console + + # systemctl start libvirtd.service + +Congratulations! The libvirtd management daemon is running and virsh is ready +to be used. + +.. _qemu.org: http://www.qemu.org/ +.. _libvirt: http://libvirt.org/