Creating Your First Virtual Machine with KubeVirt
A VirtualMachine is a Kubernetes object. You write it as YAML, apply it with kubectl apply -f, and it shows up under kubectl get vm like any other resource — namespaced, RBAC-able, watchable, governed by labels. This tutorial turns that idea into a running Linux VM in about fifteen minutes.
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VM Lifecycle and SSH Access in KubeVirt
A KubeVirt VM has four lifecycle verbs: start, stop, pause, and unpause. Stop deletes the VirtualMachineInstance and its virt-launcher pod — memory and CPU are released. Pause freezes the guest at the hypervisor level but keeps the pod and memory in place. Stop is cheap; pause is instant.
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