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Virtualization Administration Guide
1. Server Best Practices
2. sVirt
1. 2.1. Security and Virtualization
2. 2.2. sVirt Labeling
3. Cloning Virtual Machines
1. 3.1. Preparing Virtual Machines for Cloning
2. 3.2. Cloning a Virtual Machine
  1. 3.2.1. Cloning Guests with virt-clone
  2. 3.2.2. Cloning Guests with virt-manager
4. KVM Live Migration
5. Remote Management of Guests
6. Overcommitting with KVM
1. 6.1. Overcommitting Memory
2. 6.2. Overcommitting Virtualized CPUs
7. KSM
8. Advanced Guest Virtual Machine Administration
9. Guest virtual machine device configuration
10. QEMU-img and QEMU Guest Agent
11. Storage Concepts
1. 11.1. Storage Pools
2. 11.2. Volumes
12. Storage Pools
13. Volumes
14. Managing guest virtual machines with virsh
15. Managing Guests with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
16. Guest Virtual Machine Disk Access with Offline Tools
17. Graphical User Interface Tools for Guest Virtual Machine Management
1. 17.1. virt-viewer
2. 17.2. remote-viewer
18. Virtual Networking
19. qemu-kvm Commands, Flags, and Arguments
20. Manipulating the Domain XML
21. Troubleshooting
A. The Virtual Host Metrics Daemon (vhostmd)
B. Additional Resources
1. B.1. Online Resources
2. B.2. Installed Documentation
C. Revision History
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