Specifications

Additional Resources
To learn more about Red Hat Virtualization, refer to the following resources.
1. Useful Websites
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/ — The project website of the Xen™
para-virtualization machine manager from which Red Hat Virtualization is derived. The site
maintains the upstream Xen project binaries and sourcecode and also contains information,
architecture overviews, documentation, and related links regarding Xen and its associated
technologies.
• http://www.libvirt.org/ — The official website for the libvirt virtualization API that interacts
with the virtualization framework of a host OS.
• http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ — The project website for the Virtual Machine Manager
(virt-manager), the graphical application for managing virtual machines.
2. Installed Documentation
• /usr/share/doc/xen-<version-number>/ —. This directory contains a wealth of
information about the Xen para-virtualization hypervisor and associated management tools,
including a look at various example configurations, hardware-specific information, and the
current Xen upstream user documentation.
• man virsh and /usr/share/doc/libvirt-<version-number> — Contains subcommands
and options for the virsh virtual machine management utility as well as comprehensive
information about the libvirt virtualization library API.
• /usr/share/doc/gnome-applet-vm-<version-number> — Documentation for the GNOME
graphical panel applet that monitors and manages locally-running virtual machines.
• /usr/share/doc/libvirt-python-<version-number> — Provides details on the Python
bindings for the libvirt library. The libvirt-python package allows python developers to
create programs that interface with the libvirt virtualization management library.
• /usr/share/doc/python-virtinst-<version-number> — Provides documentation on the
virt-install command that helps in starting installations of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux related distributions inside of virtual machines.
• /usr/share/doc/virt-manager-<version-number> — Provides documentation on the
Virtual Machine Manager, which provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines.
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