Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Graduação
Um sistema automatizado para criação de máquinas virtuais
Fecha
2008-02-01Autor
Boufleur, Márcio Parise
Institución
Resumen
In the current computer environment, the waste of computer resources by poor utilization
is often unacceptable. Virtualization shows itself as an effective alternative to a better
resources usage by the consolidation of several machines into a unique server. The administration
of virtualized environments can be hard depending on the number of virtual
machines the administrator wants to create, because its installation can consume a serious
amount of time. One needs a better installation method of virtual machines to remedy this
deficiency. This work presents the integration of the virtual environment administrative
tool Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) with the Cobbler provisioning system. The
virt-manager tool allows the management of virtual machine monitors independently of
the virtualization solution used, because it is built on the libvirt library, which maintains
a consistent API to manage several hipervisors. Cobbler is a system that allows the rapid
and efficient installation and configuration of new operating systems. This work had the
intent to enhance the tool virt-manager, by giving it means to create new virtual machines
using the Cobbler system’s profiles, this way freeing the administrator of the necessity of
manually installing them.