KVM

KVM is the Linux kernel's native virtualization.

Install it

SUSE 11

This has been tested on SUSE Linux 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4.

Networking

You will have to set up networking for your virtual machines. Otherwise they won't start. So, on your host machine:

• start networking configuration

yast2 lan

• delete the configuration of your network card. We call it eth0 in this example.
• create an additional network device, a bridge, using yast2. Assign it your default IP address. Configure it to bridge network traffic for eth0.
• restart networking

/etc/init.d/network restart

KVM Software

• install the KVM software like this:

# yast -i kvm virt-manager
# /etc/init.d/libvirtd start
# chkconfig libvirtd on
# virt-manager

• click on new, continue as adviced

backup

# virsh list --all
# cp -r /var/lib/xen/images/virtual_machine /target

Thanks for this ifmornation. I agree that it’s extremely cool. I have only been playing with KVM for a little bit due to time constraints and deadlines. I’m interested to know if it offers some thing provisioning like Xen does.Also, on your “San on the cheap” article, I’d like to see the follow up, especially if you used Openfiler or were booting via iSCSI