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Mastering KVM Virtualization - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828714
Pages 686 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vedran Dakic Vedran Dakic
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Prasad Mukhedkar Prasad Mukhedkar
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Anil Vettathu Anil Vettathu
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: KVM Virtualization Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Linux Virtualization 3. Chapter 2: KVM as a Virtualization Solution 4. Section 2: libvirt and ovirt for Virtual Machine Management
5. Chapter 3: Installing KVM Hypervisor, libvirt, and oVirt 6. Chapter 4: Libvirt Networking 7. Chapter 5: Libvirt Storage 8. Chapter 6: Virtual Display Devices and Protocols 9. Chapter 7: Virtual Machines: Installation, Configuration, and Life Cycle Management 10. Chapter 8: Creating and Modifying VM Disks, Templates, and Snapshots 11. Section 3: Automation, Customization, and Orchestration for KVM VMs
12. Chapter 9: Customizing a Virtual Machine with cloud-init 13. Chapter 10: Automated Windows Guest Deployment and Customization 14. Chapter 11: Ansible and Scripting for Orchestration and Automation 15. Section 4: Scalability, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting
16. Chapter 12: Scaling Out KVM with OpenStack 17. Chapter 13: Scaling out KVM with AWS 18. Chapter 14: Monitoring the KVM Virtualization Platform 19. Chapter 15: Performance Tuning and Optimization for KVM VMs 20. Chapter 16: Troubleshooting Guidelines for the KVM Platform 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding and removing virtual hardware from your VM

By using the VM configuration screen, we can easily add additional hardware, or remove hardware as well. For example, if we click on the Add Hardware button in the bottom-left corner, we can easily add a device—let's say, a virtual network card. The following screenshot illustrates this process:

Figure 7.26 – After clicking on Add Hardware, we can select which virtual hardware device we want to add to our VM

On the other hand, if we select a virtual hardware device (for example, Sound ich6) and press the Remove button that will then appear, we can also remove this virtual hardware device, after confirming that we want to do so, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.27 – Process for removing a VM hardware device: select it on the left-hand side and click Remove

As you can see, adding and removing VM hardware is as easy as one-two-three...

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