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This commit adds new memorydevices.rst page which should serve all models of memory devices. Yet, I'm documenting virtio-mem quirks only. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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Knowledge base
Usage
- Secure usage
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Secure usage of the libvirt APIs
- Backing chain management
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Explanation of how disk backing chain specification impacts libvirt's behaviour and basic troubleshooting steps of disk problems.
- Virtiofs
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Share a filesystem between the guest and the host
- Security with QEMU passthrough
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Examination of the security protections used for QEMU and how they need configuring to allow use of QEMU passthrough with host files/devices.
- RPM deployment
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Explanation of the different RPM packages and illustration of which to pick for installation
- Domain state capture
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Comparison between different methods of capturing domain state
- Disk locking
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Ensuring exclusive guest access to disks with virtlockd or Sanlock
- Protected virtualization on s390
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Running secure s390 guests with IBM Secure Execution
- Launch security
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Securely launching VMs with AMD SEV
- Live full disk backup
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A walkthrough of how to take effective live full disk backups.
- Merging disk image chains
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Ways to reduce or consolidate disk image chains.
- KVM real time
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Run real time workloads in guests on a KVM hypervisor
- PCI hotplug
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Effective usage of PCI hotplug
- PCI topology
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Addressing schemes for PCI devices
- Memory devices
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Memory devices and their use
Internals / Debugging
- Debug logs
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Configuration of logging and tips on how to file a good bug report.
- Systemtap
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Explanation of how to use systemtap for libvirt tracing.
- Incremental backup internals
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Incremental backup implementation details relevant for users
- VM migration internals
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VM migration implementation details, complementing the info in migration
- Capturing core dumps for QEMU
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How to configure libvirt to enable capture of core dumps from QEMU virtual machines