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Creating and Managing KVM Storage Pools Effectively

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Storage pools in KVM virtualization are a way to centrally manage and organize storage resources for virtual machines. A storage pool is a designated area of storage, such as a directory, partition, or network-based storage, that is set aside for use by KVM virtual machines. Once a storage pool is created and started, storage volumes can be defined within the pool and assigned to VMs.

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Migrate Virtual Machines to KVM Using qemu-img

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Migrating just a couple of virtual machines from other virtualization platforms to KVM is easy. Virtualbox uses the Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) format. You can clone the vdi image to a RAW image format using vboxmanage. This way you will not alter your original virtual image file. Then QEMU provides the necessary tools to convert the RAW image to the qcow2 format. Qcow2 is QEMU’s Copy On Write image format.

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I Migrated to KVM+QEMU on Debian 12

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KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.

QEMU’s system emulation provides a virtual model of a machine (CPU, memory and emulated devices) to run a guest OS. It supports a number of hypervisors (known as accelerators) as well as a JIT known as the Tiny Code Generator (TCG) capable of emulating many CPUs.

libvirt is a toolkit to manage virtualization platforms.

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How to install and manage VMWare Workstation Pro virtual machines?

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If we want a cool personal lab environment, then we have to use cool tools and technology. Virtual machines are one of the best inventions for learning and practicing IT in isolated environments. We can simulate and test Operating System changes, kernel modifications and even network configurations from our chair on our PC or notebook. Let’s build a basic test lab!

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How to install VMWare Workstation Pro on Windows 10?

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VMWare is a famous name in virtualization technology. If you work in IT it is impossible that you don’t know about the VMWare products. A lot of companies use the vSphere infrastructure with vCenters and ESXi hosts. On the other end of their products there are the home users and small businesses. We can use the Workstation Player for free for non-commercial use of course, but the Workstation Pro has more powerful features that can help us building a personal home lab.

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