Installation guide

Virtualization Guide
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29.1.1. Identifying HBAs in a Host System ........................................................ 251
29.1.2. Verify NPIV is used on the HBA ............................................................ 252
VI. Virtualization reference guide 255
30. Managing guests with virsh 257
31. Managing guests with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) 267
31.1. Starting virt-manager ....................................................................................... 267
31.2. The Virtual Machine Manager main window ...................................................... 268
31.3. The virtual hardware details window ................................................................ 269
31.4. Virtual Machine graphical console .................................................................... 271
31.5. Adding a remote connection ............................................................................ 273
31.6. Displaying guest details .................................................................................. 274
31.7. Performance monitoring .................................................................................. 281
31.8. Displaying CPU usage .................................................................................... 283
31.9. Displaying Disk I/O ......................................................................................... 284
31.10. Displaying Network I/O .................................................................................. 285
31.11. Managing a virtual network ............................................................................ 286
31.12. Creating a virtual network .............................................................................. 288
32. libvirt configuration reference 297
33. Creating custom libvirt scripts 299
33.1. Using XML configuration files with virsh ........................................................... 299
VII. Troubleshooting 301
34. Troubleshooting 303
34.1. Debugging and troubleshooting tools ............................................................... 303
34.2. kvm_stat ........................................................................................................ 304
34.3. Log files ......................................................................................................... 307
34.4. Troubleshooting with serial consoles ................................................................ 307
34.5. Virtualization log files ...................................................................................... 308
34.6. Loop device errors .......................................................................................... 308
34.7. Enabling Intel VT and AMD-V virtualization hardware extensions in BIOS ............ 308
34.8. KVM networking performance .......................................................................... 309
A. Additional resources 311
A.1. Online resources ...................................................................................................... 311
A.2. Installed documentation ............................................................................................ 311
Glossary 313
B. Revision History 317
C. Colophon 319