Overview

This chapter contains documentation on how to create and manage Virtual Machines and their associated objects.

Important

Through these guides Virtual Machine or VM is used as a generic abstraction that may represents real VMs, micro-VMs or system containers.

How Should I Read This Chapter

Before reading this chapter, you should have already installed your Frontend, the KVM Hosts, LXD Hosts, Firecracker Hosts or vCenter node and have an OpenNebula cloud up and running with at least one virtualization node.

This Chapter is structured as follows:

• The Virtual MAchine Template Section shows how to define VM

• Then you can create VM instances out of the VM Template definition.

• Specific procedures to backup your VMs are explained in a dedicated Section.

• How to run VMs out of container images is also addressed in this Chapter.

For vCenter based infrastructures read first the VMware vCenter Virtual Machine Section.

Hypervisor Compatibility

These guides are compatible with all hypervisors, except for the VMware vCenter Section.