SUSE · aginies · Nov 20, 2025 · Nov 21, 2025 · Nov 21, 2025 · Nov 21, 2025
diff --git a/DC-SLES-virtualization-disk-cache b/DC-SLES-virtualization-disk-cache
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+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
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+PROFOS="sles"
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+#PROFCONDITION="community-project"
+
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diff --git a/DC-SLES-virtualization-io b/DC-SLES-virtualization-io
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+MAIN="virtualization-io.asm.xml"
+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
+PROFCONDITION="suse-product"
+PROFOS="sles"
+#PROFCONDITION="suse-product;beta"
+#PROFCONDITION="community-project"
+
+STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
+FALLBACK_STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
diff --git a/DC-SLES-virtualization-libvirt b/DC-SLES-virtualization-libvirt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+MAIN="virtualization-libvirt.asm.xml"
+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
+PROFCONDITION="suse-product"
+PROFOS="sles"
+#PROFCONDITION="suse-product;beta"
+#PROFCONDITION="community-project"
+
+STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
+FALLBACK_STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
diff --git a/DC-SLES-virtualization-qemu b/DC-SLES-virtualization-qemu
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+MAIN="virtualization-qemu.asm.xml"
+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
+PROFCONDITION="suse-product"
+PROFOS="sles"
+#PROFCONDITION="suse-product;beta"
+#PROFCONDITION="community-project"
+
+STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
+FALLBACK_STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
diff --git a/DC-SLES-virtualization-spice-removal b/DC-SLES-virtualization-spice-removal
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+MAIN="virtualization-spice-removal.asm.xml"
+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
+PROFCONDITION="suse-product"
+PROFOS="sles"
+#PROFCONDITION="suse-product;beta"
+#PROFCONDITION="community-project"
+
+STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
+FALLBACK_STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
diff --git a/DC-SLES-virtualization-support b/DC-SLES-virtualization-support
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+MAIN="virtualization-support.asm.xml"
+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
+PROFCONDITION="suse-product"
+PROFOS="sles"
+#PROFCONDITION="suse-product;beta"
+#PROFCONDITION="community-project"
+
+STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
+FALLBACK_STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
diff --git a/...virtual-disk-cache-mode-configure.asm.xml → articles/virtualization-disk-cache.asm.xml b/...virtual-disk-cache-mode-configure.asm.xml → articles/virtualization-disk-cache.asm.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
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diff --git a/articles/virtualization-io.asm.xml b/articles/virtualization-io.asm.xml
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+   <resource href="../references/virtualization-io.xml" xml:id="_reference-virtualization-io"/>
+   <resource href="../glues/virtualization-more-info.xml" xml:id="_glue-virtualization-more-info"/>
+   <resource href="../common/legal.xml" xml:id="_legal">
+     <description>Legal Notice</description>
+   </resource>
+   <resource href="../common/license_gfdl1.2.xml" xml:id="_gfdl">
+     <description>GNU Free Documentation License</description>
+   </resource>
+ </resources>
+ <!-- S T R U C T U R E -->
+ <structure renderas="article" xml:id="virtualization" xml:lang="en">
+   <merge>
+     <title>Virtualization</title>
+     <revhistory xml:id="rh-virtualization">
+       <revision><date>2025-11-27</date>
+       <revdescription>
+         <para>
+           Initial version
+         </para>
+       </revdescription>
+       </revision>
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+
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+    <meta name="maintainer" content="souvik.sarkar@suse.com" its:translate="no"/>
+
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+    </meta>
+
+    <!-- Docmanager -->
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+        <dm:component>Documentation</dm:component>
+        <dm:product os="sles;sles4sap">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0</dm:product>
+        <dm:assignee>souvik.sarkar@suse.com</dm:assignee>
+      </dm:bugtracker>
+      <dm:translation>yes</dm:translation>
+    </dm:docmanager>
+
+    <!-- Architecture -->
+    <meta name="architecture" its:translate="no">
+      <phrase>&x86-64;</phrase>
+      <phrase>&power;</phrase>
+    </meta>
+
+    <!-- Productname & Version -->
+    <meta name="productname" its:translate="no">
+      <productname version="16.0" os="sles;sles4sap">&productname;</productname>
+    </meta>
+
+    <!-- Social Media -->
+    <meta name="title" its:translate="yes">Introduction to virtualization IO</meta>
+    <meta name="social-descr" its:translate="yes">Learn about the basic concepts of virtualization IO.</meta>
+
+    <!-- Search -->
+    <meta name="description" its:translate="yes">I/O virtualization enables virtual machines (VMs)
+    to efficiently interact with hardware devices (for example, network cards and storage) through the
+    hypervisor.</meta>
+
+      <abstract>
+        <variablelist>
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term>WHAT?</term>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
+	      I/O virtualization is the mechanism enabling &vmguest; to interact with physical hardware
+	      devices (for example, network interfaces and storage controllers) through a hypervisor, optimizing
+	      resource usage while managing performance trade-offs between emulation, direct assignment
+	      and hardware-assisted techniques.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term>WHY?</term>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
+           Full emulation I/O latency overhead and consumes significant CPU resources, making
+           hardware-assisted techniques (VFIO/SR-IOV) essential for latency-sensitive workloads such
+          as high-performance networking and storage.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+        </variablelist>
+      </abstract>
+    </merge>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-virtualization-io" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_glue-virtualization-more-info"/>
+    <module resourceref="_legal"/>
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diff --git a/articles/virtualization-libvirt.asm.xml b/articles/virtualization-libvirt.asm.xml
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+          xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
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+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_overview.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_overview"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_host.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_host"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_configuration_virsh.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_configuration_virsh"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_configuration_gui.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_configuration_gui"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_guest_installation.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_guest_installation"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_connect.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_connect"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_managing.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_managing"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_storage.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_storage"/>
+   <resource href="../references/libvirt_migrating_vms.xml" xml:id="_reference-libvirt_migrating_vms"/>
+   <resource href="../references/virtualization-io.xml" xml:id="_reference-virtualization-io"/>
+   <resource href="../references/vt-glossary.xml" xml:id="_vt-glossary"/>
+   <resource href="../references/vt-acronyms.xml" xml:id="_vt-acronyms"/>
+   <resource href="../glues/virtualization-more-info.xml" xml:id="_glue-virtualization-more-info"/>
+   <resource href="../common/legal.xml" xml:id="_legal">
+     <description>Legal Notice</description>
+   </resource>
+   <resource href="../common/license_gfdl1.2.xml" xml:id="_gfdl">
+     <description>GNU Free Documentation License</description>
+   </resource>
+ </resources>
+ <!-- S T R U C T U R E -->
+ <structure renderas="article" xml:id="virtualization" xml:lang="en">
+   <merge>
+     <title>Virtualization</title>
+     <revhistory xml:id="rh-virtualization">
+       <revision><date>2025-11-27</date>
+       <revdescription>
+         <para>
+           Initial version
+         </para>
+       </revdescription>
+       </revision>
+     </revhistory>
+
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+    <meta name="maintainer" content="souvik.sarkar@suse.com" its:translate="no"/>
+
+    <!-- Series-->
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+    <meta name="title" its:translate="yes">Introduction to &libvirt;</meta>
+    <meta name="social-descr" its:translate="yes">Manage virtualization platforms (KVM, QEMU) with a unified API.</meta>
+
+    <!-- Search -->
+    <meta name="description" its:translate="yes">&libvirt; provides a consistent management interface for virtualization platforms, eliminating vendor-specific tool complexity.</meta>
+
+      <abstract>
+        <variablelist>
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term>WHAT?</term>
+            <listitem>
+             <para>
+              &libvirt; is a software toolkit that provides a consistent API for managing virtual machines across multiple hypervisor platforms (KVM, QEMU).
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term>WHY?</term>
+            <listitem>
+             <para>
+              &libvirt; eliminates operational complexity of managing vendor-specific tools.
+             </para>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+        </variablelist>
+      </abstract>
+    </merge>
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+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_host" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_guest_installation" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_configuration_virsh" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_configuration_gui" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_storage" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_managing" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_connect" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-libvirt_migrating_vms" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_reference-virtualization-io" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_glue-virtualization-more-info"/>
+    <module resourceref="_legal"/>
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