All,
I have fairly basic knowledge of linux - I need to build a virtual host and KVM seems to be the best option
I have decided to build a kvm host. This host will be sitting under my desk with a gui as my main computer (i7 3770 32GB ram)
I will only be logging locally (or remotely from laptop) to VMs, i won't be doing anything with the host.
I have a question regarding partitioning
I have 2 SSDs: 120GB and 500 GB
I am hoping to build a system where the host can be rebuilt without having to reconfigure anything apart from installing the software
So it would be:
Thanks.
I have fairly basic knowledge of linux - I need to build a virtual host and KVM seems to be the best option
I have decided to build a kvm host. This host will be sitting under my desk with a gui as my main computer (i7 3770 32GB ram)
I will only be logging locally (or remotely from laptop) to VMs, i won't be doing anything with the host.
I have a question regarding partitioning
I have 2 SSDs: 120GB and 500 GB
I am hoping to build a system where the host can be rebuilt without having to reconfigure anything apart from installing the software
So it would be:
- Restore sda (i would use clonezilla)
- Install kvm binaries and related (i might even image that) in which case this step is not required
- start
- update
- job done
- sda
- Linux OS (that will be debian) + kvm binaries and related
- sdb:
- kvm config
- /home
- vms + ISO's
- Would my plan work? i had in mind manually mounting during build these 2 directories /etc/libvirt and /var/lib/libvirt/...? to sdb
My previous research would seem to suggest that's where it all lives in terms of kvm config and vms, iso... Is that correct? - Where do i put the pagefile? sda or sdb, the vm's will live on sdb but run from sda (os?)
- I am hoping to disable networking on the host to the outside world - just to protect it really (the host, not the outside world)- I have 2 nics if that is relevant
- and finally, is there such a thing as portable kvm (say i have an external drive with VMs i could plug into any linux box and go)?
- and finally again is kvm type 1 or type 2?
Thanks.