any truly up-to-date docs for KVM on ubuntu?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i want to summarize setting up simple KVM on ubuntu 11.04 and it's
easy enough to find numerous docs out there that discuss this, but all
of them seem to be a touch out-of-date in places.

  for instance, some refer to the "kvm" package even though that
package is simply a transitional package for the newer qemu-kvm.  not
a big deal, but truly current documentation should refer to qemu-kvm.

  another example would be any reference to the ubuntu-vm-builder
package for creating VMs.  if you read the man page for
ubuntu-vm-builder, it's now just a wrapper for the vmbuilder command
from the python-vm-builder package.

  there's a fairly good writeup here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-11.04

but author falko timme instructs the reader to install, among other
things, the kvm-pxe package, which is fine *if* you need that
functionality.  as a minimalist, i like to keep the number of
installed packages short and include only those that are absolutely
essential for the task at hand.

  granted, a lot of this is pedantry, but it would be nice to have a
write-up that incorporates only the latest, actual packages.  if one
doesn't exist, i'll just dig thru what's there and throw something
together myself.

rday

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