Hosting Services and Virtual Machines

This chapter will deal with basics of hosting services for third parties. This chapter also includes a section on how to isolate processes and users into their own virtual containments in the form of virtual machines and Linux containers.

• Virtualisation
  • Types of Virtualisation
    • What is Virtualisation?
    • Full Virtualisation
    • Paravirtualisation
    • Containers
    • Trade-offs, or Deciding for a Type of Virtualisation
  • Introduction in libvirt
    • Tools for Virtualisaton on Linux
    • What is libvirt?
    • Networking with libvirt
  • Example Use Cases
    • Setting Up a Network with libvirt
      • Requirements
    • Required steps
    • Host Virtual Machines for Third-Party Users
      • Requirements
      • Required steps