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volume deleted from kvm, but not reflected in centos guest

I assigned some volumes to my VM on kvm. Now I want to remove those volumes. I used virsh vol-delete command and deleted those volumes. Still from the guest side, can see those volumes!!!. lsblk, ...
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Qemu: Is it possible to have BOTH the virtual display and VGA passthrough in a Windows guest?

This guy implies that it's possible to have both the virtual display and a VGA passthrough display device active at the same time.. I've tried this, both with libvirt and with the qemu commandline. ...
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Can hardware be used directly by both host and guest?

I am about to start experimenting with VT-d/PCI passthrough on my new coming-soon hardware known to support it, and wondering if it will be possible to use say video/audio hardware by both host and ...
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KVM PCI passthrough, driver installed but it won't output anything

I have a Windows 10 guest VM running on qemu-kvm, with a GTX 970 card passed through to it, using vfio-pci. I can start the VM fine and connect to it through VNC, install the nvidia driver, it detects ...
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What's the diffrence between snapshot-create and snapshot-create-as in virsh kvm?

On my virtualization system there are some VMs. One of them was aimed for testing some services on it. So in this case I need to have the first state of that VM. I searched for a solution found the ...
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Can KVM run on top of host OS?

I was interested in experimenting with Xen until I discovered that it has to be installed bare metal. Hence, if I have a Linux machine and want to use it to run a Xen hypervisor, I have to install the ...
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(Virtual Machine) KVM/QEMU Distributed Resources

How do large VM hosting establishments offer Terabytes of RAM? Do they just use really large SWAP files? (over a Network FS of some type)? Or is it that they really have hosts/machines/computers ...
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Networking Issue with libvirt (kvm)

I'm running a desktop class computer tower with Ubuntu Server 13.04 (64-bit) installed. The server is configured with libvirt, and I use virt-manager to control and configure the VMs as well as virsh....
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PCI-X card controlled by VM

I have a PCI-X card which I would like to assign to one of my VM guests. I am using Ubuntu 10.10, with libvirt and kvm. Is there any way, of completely bypassing the host system, and routing all PCI-...
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Virtual machines with failover setup

We have three servers and our plan is to run a number of virtual machines on them in such manner, that if one of the nodes blow up, we can either quickly or seamlessly get a spare running on another ...

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