About This Manual

This manual offers an introduction to setting up and managing virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) on openSUSE. The first part introduces KVM by describing it's requirements and SUSE's support status. The second part deals with managing KVM with libvirt, while the last part covers management with QEMU.

Many chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources. This includes additional documentation that is available on the system as well as documentation available on the Internet.

For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest documentation updates, refer to http://www.suse.com/documentation.

1. Documentation disponible

Nous fournissons des versions HTML et PDF de nos livres dans différentes langues. Les manuels suivants pour utilisateurs et administrateurs sont disponibles sur ce produit :

Start-Up (↑Start-Up)

Guides you step-by-step through the installation of openSUSE from DVD, or from an ISO image, gives short introductions to the GNOME and KDE desktops including some key applications running on it. Also gives an overview of LibreOffice and its modules for writing texts, working with spreadsheets, or creating graphics and presentations.

Reference (↑Reference)

Gives you a general understanding of openSUSE and covers advanced system administration tasks. It is intended mainly for system administrators and home users with basic system administration knowledge. It provides detailed information about advanced deployment scenarios, administration of your system, the interaction of key system components and the set-up of various network and file services openSUSE offers.

Security Guide (↑Security Guide)

Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network security aspects. Shows how to make use of the product inherent security software like AppArmor (which lets you specify per program which files the program may read, write, and execute) or the auditing system that reliably collects information about any security-relevant events.

System Analysis and Tuning Guide (↑System Analysis and Tuning Guide)

An administrator's guide for problem detection, resolution and optimization. Find how to inspect and optimize your system by means of monitoring tools and how to efficiently manage resources. Also contains an overview of common problems and solutions and of additional help and documentation resources.

Virtualization with KVM

This manual offers an introduction to setting up and managing virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) on openSUSE. Also shows how to manage VM Guests with libvirt and QEMU.

Find HTML versions of most product manuals in your installed system under /usr/share/doc/manual or in the help centers of your desktop. Find the latest documentation updates at http://www.suse.com/documentation where you can download PDF or HTML versions of the manuals for your product.

2. Remarques

Plusieurs voies pour vos remarques sont disponibles :

Bugs et demandes d'améliorations

To report bugs for a product component, or to submit enhancement requests, please use https://bugzilla.novell.com/. For documentation bugs, submit a bug report for the component Documentation of the respective product.

Si Bugzilla est nouveau pour vous, vous trouverez, à coup sûr, les articles suivants intéressants :

Commentaires d'utilisateurs

We want to hear your comments about and suggestions for this manual and the other documentation included with this product. Use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page in the online documentation or go to http://www.suse.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your comments there.

Mail

For feedback on the documentation of this product, you can also send a mail to doc-team@suse.de. Make sure to include the document title, the product version and the publication date of the documentation. To report errors or suggest enhancements, provide a concise description of the problem and refer to the respective section number and page (or URL).

3. Conventions de la documentation

Les conventions typographiques suivantes sont utilisées dans ce manuel :

  • /etc/passwd : noms des dossiers et des fichiers

  • placeholder : remplacer placeholder avec la valeur actuelle

  • PATH : la variable d'environnement PATH

  • ls, --help : commandes, options et paramètres

  • user : utilisateurs ou groupes

  • Alt, Alt+F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as on a keyboard

  • File, File+Save As: menu items, buttons

  • Dancing Penguins (Chapitre Penguins, ↑Un autre manuel) : Ceci est une référence à un chapitre dans un autre manuel.

4. À propos de la création de ce manuel

This book is written in Novdoc, a subset of DocBook (see http://www.docbook.org). The XML source files were validated by xmllint, processed by xsltproc, and converted into XSL-FO using a customized version of Norman Walsh's stylesheets. The final PDF is formatted through XEP from RenderX. The open source tools and the environment used to build this manual are available in the package daps that is shipped with openSUSE. The project's home page can be found at http://daps.sf.net/.

5. Code source

The source code of openSUSE is publicly available. Refer to http://en.opensuse.org/Source_code for download links and more information.

6. Remerciements

Avec beaucoup d'engagement, les développeurs de Linux coopèrent à échelle mondiale pour promouvoir le développement de Linux. Nous les remercions pour leurs efforts—cette distribution n'existerait pas sans eux. Nous remercions aussi Frank Zappa and Pawar. Remerciements spéciaux, bien sûr, à Linus Torvalds.

Have a lot of fun!

Votre équipe SUSE


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