Libvirt

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libvirt[1] is a virtualization API with supports for KVM, QEMU, Xen, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC, BHyve and more



Ubuntu packages

At least the following packages compose libvirt in Ubuntu:

  • libvirt-bin
  • libvirt-clients: virsh, virt-admin virt-host-validate virt-login-shell virt-pki-validate virt-xml-validate
  • libvirt-daemon:
libvirtd: /etc/libvirt/virtlogd.conf
virt-sanlock-cleanup
virtlockd
virtlogd
  • libvirt-daemon-system

Config files and directories

  • Config directories:
/etc/libvirt/
/etc/libvirt/storage/
/etc/libvirt/qemu/XML_FILES_FROM_SERVERS.XML
/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks
  • Config files:
/etc/libvirt/virtlogd.conf
Includes information about Unix Socket permissions: unix_sock_group, unix_sock_ro_perms, unix_sock_rw_perms, auth_unix_ro, auth_unix_rw
/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf


/var/log/libvirt/qemu
journalctl -u libvirtd

Activities

Basic

Medium

  • Restart libvirtd daemon: systemctl restart libvirtd


Advanced:

See also

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Source: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/KVM/libvirt

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