libvirt: Knowledge base
Description: libvirt, virtualization, virtualization API

# Knowledge base

Disk locking
  Ensuring exclusive guest access to disks with virtlockd or Sanlock
Secure usage
  Secure usage of the libvirt APIs
Protected virtualization on s390
  Running secure s390 guests with IBM Secure Execution
Launch security
  Securely launching VMs with AMD SEV
Domain state capture
  Comparison between different methods of capturing domain state
RPM deployment
  Explanation of the different RPM packages and illustration of which to pick for installation
Backing chain management
  Explanation of how disk backing chain specification impacts libvirt's behaviour and basic troubleshooting steps of disk problems.
Security with QEMU passthrough
  Examination of the security protections used for QEMU and how they need configuring to allow use of QEMU passthrough with host files/devices.
Virtio-FS
  Share a filesystem between the guest and the host
KVM real time
  Run real time workloads in guests on a KVM hypervisor
Incremental backup internals
  Incremental backup implementation details relevant for users