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- Salt Virt
- =========
- The Salt Virt cloud controller capability was initially added to Salt in
- version 0.14.0 as an alpha technology.
- The initial Salt Virt system supports core cloud operations:
- - Virtual machine deployment
- - Inspection of deployed VMs
- - Virtual machine migration
- - Network profiling
- - Automatic VM integration with all aspects of Salt
- - Image Pre-seeding
- Many features are currently under development to enhance the capabilities of
- the Salt Virt systems.
- .. note::
- It is noteworthy that Salt was originally developed with the intent of
- using the Salt communication system as the backbone to a cloud controller.
- This means that the Salt Virt system is not an afterthought, simply a
- system that took the back seat to other development. The original attempt
- to develop the cloud control aspects of Salt was a project called butter.
- This project never took off, but was functional and proves the early
- viability of Salt to be a cloud controller.
- .. warning::
- Salt Virt does not work with KVM that is running in a VM. KVM must be running
- on the base hardware.
- Salt Virt Tutorial
- ==================
- A tutorial about how to get Salt Virt up and running has been added to the
- tutorial section:
- :ref:`Cloud Controller Tutorial <cloud-controller>`
- The Salt Virt Runner
- ====================
- The point of interaction with the cloud controller is the :strong:`virt`
- runner. The :strong:`virt` runner comes with routines to execute specific
- virtual machine routines.
- Reference documentation for the virt runner is available with the runner
- module documentation:
- :py:mod:`Virt Runner Reference <salt.modules.virt>`
- Based on Live State Data
- ========================
- The Salt Virt system is based on using Salt to query live data about
- hypervisors and then using the data gathered to make decisions about cloud
- operations. This means that no external resources are required to run Salt
- Virt, and that the information gathered about the cloud is live and accurate.
- Deploy from Network or Disk
- ===========================
- .. toctree::
- disk
- nic
- ../tutorials/cloud_controller
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