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Virtual Machine Learning Activity - VMs
In this hands-on lab, we're going to be using the provisioned servers to practice managing virtual machines in a RHEL7 environment. We'll start an instance, and then investigate the settings to discover the location of the VM storage. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Challenge
Find the Name of the Virtual Machine on the Server
- Sudo into the root user:
[cloud_user@host]$ sudo -i
- List the installed virtual machines:
[root@host]# virsh list --all
- Sudo into the root user:
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Challenge
Start the VM
- Start the VM:
[root@host]# virsh start centos7.0
- Start the VM:
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Challenge
Determine the Location and Names of the Files that the VM Contains
- Look at the configuration of an individual VM by running:
[root@host]# virsh edit centos7.0
- What we'll see is an XML file. Sections labeled
disk
contain the source file for all the disks allocated to the VM. We should see references to files in/var/lib/libvirt/images/
, includingcentos7.0
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- Look at the configuration of an individual VM by running:
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