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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Virtualization Getting Started Guide

Virtualization Documentation

Edition 0.2

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Abstract
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Getting Started Guide describes the basics of virtualization and the virtualization products and technologies that are available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Preface
1. Document Conventions
1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings
2. Getting Help and Giving Feedback
2.1. Do You Need Help?
2.2. We Need Feedback!
1. Introduction
1.1. Who should read this guide?
1.2. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
2. Getting started with Virtualization
2.1. What is virtualization?
2.2. Migration
2.3. Virtualized to virtualized migration (V2V)
3. Advantages and misconceptions of virtualization
3.1. Virtualization costs
3.2. Virtualization learning curve
3.3. Performance
3.4. Disaster recovery
3.5. Security
3.5.1. Virtualization security features
3.6. Virtualization for servers and individuals
4. Introduction to Red Hat virtualization products
4.1. KVM and virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.2. libvirt and the libvirt tools
4.3. Virtualized hardware devices
4.3.1. Virtualized and emulated devices
4.3.2. Para-virtualized drivers
4.3.3. Physical host devices
4.3.4. Guest CPU models
4.4. Storage
4.4.1. Storage pools
5. Virtualization Tools
5.1. virsh
5.2. virt-manager
5.3. virt-install
5.4. guestfish
5.5. Other useful tools
A. Revision History