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6 <strong>Univention</strong> Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM)<br />

Contents<br />

6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />

6.1.1 Paravirtualisation / virtIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />

6.2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170<br />

6.3 Managing virtual machines with UVMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

6.1 Introduction<br />

6.3.1 Creating a virtual instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

6.3.2 Modifying virtual machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173<br />

6.3.3 Migration of virtual machines from failed virtualization servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178<br />

<strong>Univention</strong> Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a management system for virtualisation servers and virtual<br />

machines. It offers the possibility of monitoring all the virtualisation servers (based on Xen or KVM)<br />

registered in the <strong>UCS</strong> domain and administrating the virtual instances on these systems.<br />

A <strong>Univention</strong> Management Console module forms the management interface; it can be installed on any<br />

system in the <strong>UCS</strong> domain (however, a domain controller is preferable). All virtualisation servers are then<br />

administrated from this management system.<br />

Section 6.2 describes the installation of the management system and the virtualisation servers and the<br />

functions of the <strong>Univention</strong> Management Console module.<br />

<strong>Univention</strong> Wiki (http://wiki.univention.de) includes a step-by-step quickstart guide [13] and fur-<br />

ther technical documentation as well as howtos [14]. (Currently only available in German)<br />

6.1.1 Paravirtualisation / virtIO<br />

In principle, the virtualised systems can run arbitrary operating systems. This mode of operation is called<br />

fully virtualised systems.<br />

KVM and Xen each offer interfaces to provide the virtualised systems with direct access to the resources<br />

of the virtualisation server. This considerably improves performance.<br />

In Xen, this technology is referred to as paravirtualisation. Current Linux systems support paravirtualisa-<br />

tion as standard; support drivers need to be installed for Microsoft Windows systems (see [14]).<br />

KVM offers the virtIO interface. This allows network and storage devices a direct connection to the KVM<br />

resources. This technology is comparable to paravirtualisation. When menu points in UVMM refer to<br />

paravirtualisation, this also includes virtIO.<br />

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