7.8 Virtual Machines

Virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run simultaneously on a single computer system, with each system running inside its own virtual machine. The Virtual Machines Cockpit extension provides a way to create and manage the virtual machine guests installed on the server.

Figure 7-6

The Virtual Machines extension is not installed by default but can be added to Cockpit by running the following command:

# dnf install cockpit-machines

The use of virtualization with CentOS 8 is covered starting with the chapter entitled “Installing KVM Virtualization on CentOS 8”