virt-install—Red Hat's One-Step DomU Installer
Red Hat opted to support a generic virtualization concept rather than a specific technology. Their approach is to wrap the virtualization in an abstraction layer, libvirt. Red Hat then provides support software that uses this library to take the place of the virtualization package-specific control software.[22] (For information on the management end of libvirt, virt-manager, see Chapter 6.)
For example, Red Hat includes virsh, a command-line interface that controls virtual machines. xm and virsh do much the same thing, using very similar commands. The advantage of virsh and libvirt, however, is that the virsh interface will remain consistent if you decide to switch to another virtualization technology. ...
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