Virtualization is a hot area in Computing. There is a different type of virtualization solutions and techniques used in a different environment and operating systems. KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization technology used in Linux kernel and distributions. Linux KVM can be only used in Linux kernel and...
Hi today we are gonna look for managing vms especially in Linux with libvirt. Libvirt is a library and tools to manage vms. Lbivirt development is supported by Red hat and defacto tool in Linux world. In Linux Kvm/qemu is generally used for virtuulization but libvirt supports Xen, Virtualbox, Vmware,...
KVM is a hyper visor used by a lot of Linux distributions. I am currently using it and very happy with it. I have most of the abilities paid hypervisors like HyperV, Vmware provides. Snapshots is picture of the VM in specified time. For example we will install new application...
There are times when we start virtual machine and want to get ip address quickly without open any GUI or connecting virtual machines console. Here is the tip. virsh domiflist Command
1 2 3 | #!/bin/bash VMNAME=$1 for mac in `sudo virsh domiflist $VMNAME |grep -o -E "([0-9a-f]{2}:){5}([0-9a-f]{2})"` ; do arp -e | grep $mac | grep -o -P "^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}" ; done |
The magic is that virtual machines interfaces are listed than mac address is grepped. After grepping mac address...
