Mike, your suggestions are right on! I think providing a feature comparison with KVM vs. VMWare would be useful. I editted Mike's message below to those points I agree with most.
I too would spend the money on a book solely on virtualization with KVM and Ubuntu. --Physical -> virtual server transition --Live migration (is that even a feature in KVM yet?) --Saving/loading states, and regular backups --How to get VMs connected to network storage (SAN/NAS, pros/cons) --VM networking --VM tools: oVirt, libvirt/virt-manager (http://et.redhat.com/page/Main_Page), Enomalism (cloud computing, http://enomalism.com) Virtualization is not going away, it is only getting more commonplace. It would be great if there is good documentation/text out there to show how KVM, free, enterprise grade software can make it happen for a business. That said, there are many tasks on server, and I tink the apress book did a good job. From the perspective of a student wishing to get into datacenter and network administration, I would like to see topics on load balancing apache servers, network storage, virtualization, and groupware. On 7/14/08, Mike Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realized that I sent my reply to Sander only so I have copied it below: > > ------------------------ > * how to monitor virtual machine performance remotely if possible and also > discussion of remote desktop or similar to both headless and GUI virtual > machines. Remote management tools - what are they and how to install and use > them. > * Ubuntu JeOS - the benefits of using this operating system for virtual > machines. Are VMWare Tools necessary to run JeOS in KVM? If so how to > install VMWare Tools. Discussion of the benefits of VMWare tools on Ubuntu > JeOS. > * What features are proposed for future releases of KVM? > * More detailed explanation of the qemu commands i.e. parameter by parameter > so that the reader knows what the switches are for etc > * Virtual machine management in general - scripts to start up a particular > virtual machine on boot for example, or shut down all virtual machines one > by one. Scripts to back up virtual machines to remote stoarge and then boot > them once this is done. > * How to "import" VMWare virtual machines to KVM - if this can be done? > There are plenty of VMWare appliances that I would like to run - can this > easily be done on KVM and what steps would need to be taken for example? Is > there any performance penalty in importing a VMWare virtual machines as > opposed to creating it in KVM? > * Can I do snapshots in KVM? So discussion of the full feature set vs the > competition (VMWare) for example. > * does a kernel update affect my KVM installation? > Basically I would like a full and detailed account of the limitations and > features of KVM and how to administer the server through the command line > and remotely with GUI tools if that applies also. > > > I realize that this is much more than would ever be in a beginner book. Even > so I would have liked to see more page space devoted to Virtualization so > that more ground could be covered. > > I guess that this is why I said that I would happily buy a good book just on > Virtualization. > -- Luke L. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
