The virtual server management
as described in this document is based on the following virtualization
components.
Linux® kernel including
the kvm kernel module (KVM)
Provides the core virtualization infrastructure to run multiple virtual servers on a Linux
host.
QEMU
User space component that implements virtual servers on
the host using KVM functionality.
libvirt
Provides a toolkit for the virtual server management:
The XML format is used to configure virtual servers.
The virsh command-line interface is used to operate virtual servers and devices.
Figure 1 shows the virtual server management tasks using
the XML format and the virsh command-line interface.Figure 1. Virtual server administrator tasks using XML format and the virsh command-line
interface
