1==============
2Knowledge base
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4
5Usage
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7
8`Secure usage <secureusage.html>`__
9   Secure usage of the libvirt APIs
10
11`Backing chain management <backing_chains.html>`__
12   Explanation of how disk backing chain specification impacts libvirt's
13   behaviour and basic troubleshooting steps of disk problems.
14
15`Virtiofs <virtiofs.html>`__
16   Share a filesystem between the guest and the host
17
18`Security with QEMU passthrough <qemu-passthrough-security.html>`__
19   Examination of the security protections used for QEMU and how they need
20   configuring to allow use of QEMU passthrough with host files/devices.
21
22`RPM deployment <rpm-deployment.html>`__
23   Explanation of the different RPM packages and illustration of which to
24   pick for installation
25
26`Domain state capture <domainstatecapture.html>`__
27   Comparison between different methods of capturing domain state
28
29`Disk locking <locking.html>`__
30   Ensuring exclusive guest access to disks with
31   `virtlockd <locking-lockd.html>`__ or
32   `Sanlock <locking-sanlock.html>`__
33
34`Protected virtualization on s390 <s390_protected_virt.html>`__
35   Running secure s390 guests with IBM Secure Execution
36
37`Launch security <launch_security_sev.html>`__
38   Securely launching VMs with AMD SEV
39
40`Live full disk backup <live_full_disk_backup.html>`__
41   A walkthrough of how to take effective live full disk backups.
42
43`Merging disk image chains <merging_disk_image_chains.html>`__
44   Ways to reduce or consolidate disk image chains.
45
46`KVM real time <kvm-realtime.html>`__
47   Run real time workloads in guests on a KVM hypervisor
48
49`PCI hotplug <../pci-hotplug.html>`__
50   Effective usage of PCI hotplug
51
52`PCI topology <../pci-addresses.html>`__
53   Addressing schemes for PCI devices
54
55`Memory devices <memorydevices.html>`__
56   Memory devices and their use
57
58
59Internals / Debugging
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61
62`Debug logs <debuglogs.html>`__
63  Configuration of logging and tips on how to file a good bug report.
64
65`Systemtap <systemtap.html>`__
66   Explanation of how to use systemtap for libvirt tracing.
67
68`Incremental backup internals <incrementalbackupinternals.html>`__
69   Incremental backup implementation details relevant for users
70
71`VM migration internals <migrationinternals.html>`__
72   VM migration implementation details, complementing the info in
73   `migration <../migration.html>`__
74
75`Capturing core dumps for QEMU <qemu-core-dump.html>`__
76   How to configure libvirt to enable capture of core dumps from
77   QEMU virtual machines
78