Hi David, this seems so great! Almost everyday I see people struggling with KVM - including myself. Specially for newcommers it isn't very clear what steps you have to take to deploy your VMs and be able to connect and manage them.
I like your table of contents, I believe these things need to be covered in detail: -Examples of how to deploy servers (from an .iso file, but also from existing VMs) with an ssh key -Post install steps, or how to run a script after a server gets deployed -Access through VNC from remotely, because in most cases I believe the KVM server won't have a GUI (in order to use virt-manager) and the admin would be remotely. My personal experience with remote VNC through ssh X11 forwarding of virt-viewer and virt-manager is that they need a very fast connection otherwise they easily hung. Looking forward to see the guide! Markos On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:18 AM, David Ashley <w.david.ash...@gmail.com> wrote: > All - > > Let me introduce myself. I am W. David Ashley, the primary author of the > "Libvirt Application Development Guide Using Python" which will soon be > published on the libvirt.org web site. I hope all of you will enjoy the > new guide when it becomes available. > > I have multiple decades of experience in writing documentation and > training guides and I have about eight years of experience using libvirt > and qemu/kvm virtual machines. Most of that experience was in creating and > maintaining VM on-demand systems. > > In the meantime, I am planning a new guide and I would appreciate some > feedback from the libvirt user community concerning the potential > usefulness and contents of the new guide. The proposed title of the guide > will be "Automating Virtual Machines". The current (very) rough outline is: > > Introduction > Intro to virtual machines > Installing virtual machines > Using virtual machines > Using Python to access VMs > A sample problem > Problem statement > Solution requirements > Using VMs to solve the problem > New problems introduced by using VMs > How to programmatically access VMs > Intro to the python libvirt module > How to connect to a VM > How to access and control a guest domain > Information the python libvirt module can not provide > Storing information about VMs > Deciding what information should be stored > Using simple text files > Using a simple database > Securing your information > How to set up a VM on demand environment > Discovering a VMs ip address > Using cron to start processes > Starting up a VM > Invoking a program on the VM > Using SSH to access a VM > Shutting down a VM > Alternatives to starting/stopping a VM > Using the libvirt guest agent > Installing the libvirt guest agent > Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS > openSuse, SuSE > Ubuntu, Debian, Mint > Using (querying) the libvirt guest agent > Logging VM activities > Host activities > VM activities > Securing your VMs > Host security > VM security > > Any feedback/suggestions you have will be appreciated and I assure you > they will be given serious consideration. At this point, nothing has been > written except this rough outline so this is your chance to help form the > contents or even make suggestions for a completely different guide. > > Feel free to post back to this list or send me private email. > > W. David Ashley > w.david.ash...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users >
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