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Manage virtual machines

Manage virtual machines

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Manage virtual machines

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- [Instructor] We can manage our guest VMs using the virtual machine manager gui. The default view shows our VMs and whether they're running or not. If they are running, it shows the guest CPU usage on the right. We can have it show our host CPU usage, as well, by going to view, graph, and selecting "host CPU usage." We can also double-click on any guest VM to open the VM viewer. From that interface, we can pause, shut down, clone, migrate or delete the VM by going to the virtual machine menu. We can also go to the view menu and click on "details" to see all of the VM details. Here, we can add or configure the guest VM's virtual hardware. The virtual machine manager is a very easy to use interface to KVM, but if you want more power you'll need to use virsh, a command line tool. Virsh can work as a normal command, but also as an interactive tool with its own prompt. We're going to minimize the virtual machine manager and then go to a terminal. In the terminal, type in "sudo" space…

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