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Skill · Virtualization · Set up a hypervisor and its instances (KVM, Proxmox VE or Incus)

Set up a hypervisor and check that it works

Set up a hypervisor, KVM with libvirt, Proxmox VE or Incus, and check that hardware virtualization really works.

Start lesson 1The Virtualization domain

• 2 lessons
• ~1 h 35 of reading
• 2 quizzes
• 0 proof lab

The path

Where it comes from, where it leads

What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.

Before · 1 prerequisite

• Run commands and read their output in a shell

Depending on the chosen tool, you also need:

• KVM (default)

  • Install and maintain software
  • Administer a systemd service

• Proxmox

  nothing more

• Incus

  • Install and maintain software

Recommended before · 3

• Prepare local storage: disks, partitions, file systems and mounting
• Run containers, persist data and connect them
• Choose a type of virtualization and explain what a VM shares with its host

This skill, for you

Set up a hypervisor and check that it works

Computing

It unlocks · 5 skills

• Administer Incus OS nodes through the API: seed installation, A/B updates, Tailscale, backup, monitoring and fleet
• Connect instances to the network and expose their services: NAT, bridge, VLAN and troubleshooting
• Create ready-to-use instances: storage, creation, configured first boot and guest agent
• Describe and deploy instances in Terraform with the hypervisor's provider
• Design Proxmox access rights: roles, paths, groups and tokens

Lessons

How to learn it

This skill is learned with the tool of your choice; your preferences decide the path followed in your journey. Each path lists its lessons in program order.

With KVM

2 lessons · ~1 h 35 default

1. 1Concepts fondamentaux (in French)· 35 min
2. 2Installation (in French)· 60 min

With Proxmox

4 lessons · ~2 h 10

Part 1 · Comprendre Proxmox VE (in French) 2 lessons · ~50 min

1. 1Comprendre Proxmox VE (in French)· 20 min
2. 2Concepts stockage (in French)· 30 min

Part 2 · Installer et créer ses premières instances (in French) 2 lessons · ~1 h 20

1. 3Installation (ISO) (in French)· 45 min
2. 4Prise en main UI (in French)· 35 min

With Incus

2 lessons · ~25 min

1. 1Incus vs Docker: the differences, and when to choose which· 10 min
2. 2Installing Incus on Debian or Ubuntu (the Zabbly repository)· 15 min

Beyond the lessons

Assess, practise, pass the proof

Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.

Assess yourself

2 quizzes

At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.

Practice

No guided lab

No guided lab practices it yet.

Proof

No proof

Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.

Around it

Who requires it, who teaches it

Required by

• Linux Administrator

Taught by

• Incus Training
• KVM (in French)
• Proxmox VE (in French)

Tool of your choice: KVM or Proxmox or Incus.

Same block · Set up a hypervisor and its instances (KVM, Proxmox VE or Incus)

• Create ready-to-use instances: storage, creation, configured first boot and guest agent
• Connect instances to the network and expose their services: NAT, bridge, VLAN and troubleshooting
• Describe and deploy instances in Terraform with the hypervisor's provider

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