*** 0. Prerequisite ***

+ Bring yourself and your laptop(you can try along a few things)



*** 1. Beginning ***

+ Overview of hardware-based virtualization.
+ An architectural overview of the KVM based virtualization stack.
+ Quick intro to 'Libvirt' and what it can do for managing guests.
+ Disk image format types (raw, qcow2)



*** 2. Demonstration of KVM based Virtualization  ***

+ Python based 'virt-install' tool -- creating automated virtual machines w/ kickstart;
    - Also, 'Oz' -- another automated guest OS creator w/ minimum input from user.

+ 'virsh' shell -- A virtualization shell based on Libvirt to manage VMs from cmd-line.
And a quick walk-through of a libvirt xml config file used to represent an virtual machine.

+ A few virt-tools
    -  libguestfs/'guestfish' -- which will let you look inside a VM and make changes w/o
needing to boot it. Also useful for resizing, editing files, rescuing guests that won't
boot(it saved me a couple of times)

+ Couple of best practises for guest libvirt xml config to extract better
performance(from my experience so far)

+ Some debugging and scripting insights for power admins.



*** 3. What's coming next.. ***

+ Quick look at up coming virt features in Fedora 17 (and what's going into RHEL7)