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By adding a link to an explanation in the kbase. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
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Knowledge base
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Usage
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-----
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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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`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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`TLS certificates <tlscerts.html>`__
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Generate and deploy x509 certificates for TLS.
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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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`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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`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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`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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`Memory devices <memorydevices.html>`__
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Memory devices and their use
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`Snapshots <snapshots.html>`__
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Details about snapshotting a VM
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`Secure Boot <secureboot.html>`__
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Enable and disable the Secure Boot feature
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`Connection fail after installation <failed_connection_after_install.html>`__
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Explanation of a common issue users stumble upon after installation
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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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`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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Internals
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`Incremental backup internals <internals/incremental-backup.html>`__
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Incremental backup implementation details relevant for users
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`VM migration internals <internals/migration.html>`__
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VM migration implementation details, complementing the info in
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`migration <../migration.html>`__
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`API call flow overview <internals/overview.html>`__
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Overview of how an API call is handled by the ``libvirt`` library and passed
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over RPC to the daemon.
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`Spawning commands <internals/command.html>`__
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Spawning commands from libvirt driver code
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`Event loop and worker pool <internals/eventloop.html>`__
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Libvirt's event loop and worker pool mode
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`Lock managers <internals/locking.html>`__
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Use lock managers to protect disk content
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`RPC protocol & APIs <internals/rpc.html>`__
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RPC protocol information and API / dispatch guide
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`QEMU driver threading <internals/qemu-threads.html>`__
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Basics of locking and threaded access to qemu driver primitives.
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`QEMU migration internals <internals/qemu-migration.html>`__
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Description of migration phases in the ``v2`` and ``v3`` migration protocol.
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`QEMU monitor event handling <internals/qemu-event-handlers.html>`__
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Brief outline how events emitted by qemu on the monitor are handlded.
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