VMs + Containers = The Perfect Wedding

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Shows a working KubeVirt setup using KubeVirt and OpenShift Virtualization on OpenShift 4.6 / Kubernetes 1.19, running KVM/libvirt inside pods. Demonstrates a Fedora 35 cloud image VM (1 vCPU, 4 GB) created from a URL, backed by PVCs and launched by a virt-launcher pod, reachable via a NodePort (31220) mapped to a worker node IP, and running for >2 hours. Notes hardware VT flags are required and VM lifecycle inherits kube scheduler and networking.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:42Containers are not virtual machines
3. 3:04Virtual machines can be put into containers
4. 5:25VM containers use KVM
5. 6:47Virtual machines in a container world
6. 7:52Virtualization native to Kubernetes
7. 10:28Using VMs and containers together
8. 24:55Virtual Machine Management
9. 25:11Containerized virtual machines
10. 26:19Containerizing KVM
11. 27:37Architectural Overview
12. 28:00Adding virtualization to the Kubernetes API

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