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Knowledge base
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Usage
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`Secure usage <secureusage.html>`__
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Secure usage of the libvirt APIs
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`Backing chain management <backing_chains.html>`__
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Explanation of how disk backing chain specification impacts libvirt's
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behaviour and basic troubleshooting steps of disk problems.
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2021-09-09 14:58:29 +00:00
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`Virtiofs <virtiofs.html>`__
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Share a filesystem between the guest and the host
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`Security with QEMU passthrough <qemu-passthrough-security.html>`__
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Examination of the security protections used for QEMU and how they need
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configuring to allow use of QEMU passthrough with host files/devices.
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`RPM deployment <rpm-deployment.html>`__
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Explanation of the different RPM packages and illustration of which to
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pick for installation
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`Domain state capture <domainstatecapture.html>`__
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Comparison between different methods of capturing domain state
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`Disk locking <locking.html>`__
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Ensuring exclusive guest access to disks with
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`virtlockd <locking-lockd.html>`__ or
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`Sanlock <locking-sanlock.html>`__
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`Protected virtualization on s390 <s390_protected_virt.html>`__
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Running secure s390 guests with IBM Secure Execution
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`Launch security <launch_security_sev.html>`__
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Securely launching VMs with AMD SEV
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2021-05-10 16:39:55 +00:00
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`Live full disk backup <live_full_disk_backup.html>`__
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A walkthrough of how to take effective live full disk backups.
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2021-05-10 16:39:56 +00:00
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`Merging disk image chains <merging_disk_image_chains.html>`__
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Ways to reduce or consolidate disk image chains.
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`KVM real time <kvm-realtime.html>`__
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Run real time workloads in guests on a KVM hypervisor
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2021-01-22 15:23:33 +00:00
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`PCI hotplug <../pci-hotplug.html>`__
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Effective usage of PCI hotplug
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`PCI topology <../pci-addresses.html>`__
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Addressing schemes for PCI devices
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2021-02-07 19:52:08 +00:00
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`Memory devices <memorydevices.html>`__
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Memory devices and their use
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2020-11-04 14:51:17 +00:00
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Internals / Debugging
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`Debug logs <debuglogs.html>`__
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Configuration of logging and tips on how to file a good bug report.
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`Systemtap <systemtap.html>`__
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Explanation of how to use systemtap for libvirt tracing.
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`Incremental backup internals <incrementalbackupinternals.html>`__
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Incremental backup implementation details relevant for users
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`VM migration internals <migrationinternals.html>`__
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VM migration implementation details, complementing the info in
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`migration <../migration.html>`__
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2021-07-20 12:11:50 +00:00
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`Capturing core dumps for QEMU <qemu-core-dump.html>`__
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How to configure libvirt to enable capture of core dumps from
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QEMU virtual machines
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