Skill · Virtualization · 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
Create ready-to-use instances: storage and disk formats, command-line creation, a first boot configured by cloud-init and the guest agent.
Start lesson 1The Virtualization domain
- 3 lessons
- ~2 h 50 of reading
- 5 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
Recommended before · 3
This skill, for you
Create ready-to-use instances: storage, creation, configured first boot and guest agent
Computing
It unlocks · 8 skills
- Automate Incus with Ansible: connection plugin, provisioning and custom images
- Operate Incus instances: OCI images, storage, profiles, projects and GPUs
- Describe and deploy instances in Terraform with the hypervisor's provider
- Operate KVM VMs day to day with virsh, the guest agent and remote access
- Confine a KVM VM with libvirt: sVirt, Secure Boot, vTPM and nwfilter filtering
- Fit a KVM VM to the host hardware: CPU, virtio, disk cache and VFIO passthrough
- Drive Proxmox with Ansible: dynamic inventory and community.proxmox modules
- Back up and restore VMs with Proxmox Backup Server
The path through the foundations From the most upstream foundation to this skill: what is in place, what remains to read.
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
3 lessons · ~2 h 50 default
Part 1 · Préparer l'hôte : réseau et stockage (in French) 1 lesson · ~50 min
- 1Stockage pools/volumes (in French)· 50 min
Part 2 · Créer des VM et les exploiter au quotidien (in French) 2 lessons · ~2 h 00
- 2Créer une VM (in French)· 60 min
- 3Cloud-init (in French)· 60 min
With Proxmox
5 lessons · ~2 h 20
Part 1 · Installer et créer ses premières instances (in French) 2 lessons · ~1 h 30
- 1Créer une VM KVM (in French)· 45 min
- 2Créér des Conteneurs LXC (in French)· 45 min
Part 2 · Cas pratiques (in French) 3 lessons · ~50 min
With Incus
2 lessons · ~50 min
Part 1 · Getting started with Incus 1 lesson · ~15 min
Part 2 · Running Incus day to day 1 lesson · ~35 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
5 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.
Apply it on real infrastructure
- Installer KubeVirt sur un cluster de lab (sans /dev/kvm) (in French)
- Créer et gérer une VM avec KubeVirt (in French)
Hands-on lessons: their labs count as practice and their quizzes assess you, without being required to acquire it.
Placement test
Preparing the questions…
Your answers in detail
For each question asked: your answer, the correct answer, its explanation and the page to reread.
Around it
Who requires it, who teaches it
Required by
Taught by
Tool of your choice: KVM or Proxmox or Incus.
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