Guests
The Guests page lists the defined
guests for your server.
For each guest, the following information is displayed:
- Name
- Name of the guest.
- CPU
- Percentage of processor utilization in the guest.
- Disk I/O
- Disk input/output transmission rate in KB per seconds.
- Network I/O
- Network input/output transmission rate in KB per seconds.
- Livetile
- State of guest operating system console, or an icon that represents
the Linux distribution if the
guest is not active.
The following actions icons are displayed for each guest:
- Reset
- Click to reset the guest.
- Power (Start or Stop)
- Click to power on or power off the guest. If the icon is red,
the power is off; if the icon is green, the power is on.
The following actions can be selected for each guest:
- Select Connect to connect to the remote
console for the guest operating system.
- Select Clone to copy an existing guest
definition to create a guest.
- Select Reset to reset the guest. You can
only reset a guest that is started.
- Select Edit to edit the properties of an
existing guest. Guests can be edited only while stopped.
- Select Start to start a guest
- Select Shut Down to shut down a guest gracefully.
- Select Power Off to force an immediate
shut down of the guest.
- Select Delete to delete the guest.
To create a guest, click the plus (+) icon
on the page.
Create a guest
Create a guest by using an existing template.
- Type the name to be used to identify the guest.
- Select a template.
- If templates exist, select from displayed templates.
- If no templates exist, click Create a template to
create a template.
You can view information about a template by hovering over it.
- Click Create.
Edit guest
Edit the properties of an existing guest. Some properties
can be edited only while guest is stopped. Others will take effect
in next boot.
- If guest is off: CPU and Memory new values
takes effect after next boot.
- If guest is running: Guest must support
hotplug/hotunplug of CPU and Memory devices, otherwise changes in these fields will not take effect. For Power systems, the guest must have:
- Latest versions of packages powerpc-utils, ppc64-diag and librtas
must be installed.
- Service rtas_err must be running.
- General
- Displays information about your guest, including name, CPUs, memory,
and icon to use for your guest. You can edit the name of a stopped
guest. Changing the CPUs and memory takes effect after the next boot.
- Storage
- Displays the device and path for storage for the selected guest.
You can add, edit, and remove storage devices for your guest.
- Interface
- Displays network information for the guest, including name, type,
and MAC address. You can add, edit, and remove interfaces for your
guest.
- Permission
- Displays the users and groups that are authorized for the guest.
- Host PCI Device
- Displays a list of all PCI devices available on the host.
- Snapshot
- Displays snapshots of the guest. You can create, edit, or delete
a snapshot. By selecting a snapshot and selecting revert, the guest
is restored to a point in the past, determined by the snapshot data,
and discards any changes made beyond that point in time.
Fields that are not disabled can be edited. After you edit a field,
click Save.
Cloning a guest
Cloning a guests allows you to create a copy of a guest.
To clone a guest:
- Select Clone from the Action menu of a
guest.
- Accept the warning. When a target guest is using SCSI or
iSCSI volumes or if the target pool does not have enough space, the
clone will be created on a default storage pool.
A guest appears in your list with the label Cloning... When
the process is complete, the cloned guest is available to use.