305-300 Exam Dumps : LPIC-3: Virtualization and Containerization - Exam 305, version 3.0

The unshare command is used to run a process in a new Linux namespace12. It takes one or more flags to specify which namespaces to create or unshare from the parent process1. For example, to run a shell in a new mount, network, and PID namespace, one can use:

unshare -mnp /bin/bash

References:

• 1: unshare(1) - Linux manual page - man7.org
• 2: A gentle introduction to namespaces in Linux - Packagecloud

The command virsh pool-create-as vms dir --target /vms creates and starts a transient storage pool named vms of type dir with the target directory /vms12. This command resolves the issue of the storage pool not found error, as it makes the existing directory /vms visible to libvirt as a storage pool. The other commands are invalid because:

• dd if=/dev/zero of=/vms bs=1 count=0 flags=name:vms is not a valid command syntax. The dd command does not take a flags argument, and the output file /vms should be a regular file, not a directory3.
• libvirt-poolctl new --name=/vms --type=dir --path=/vms is not a valid command name. There is no such command as libvirt-poolctl in the libvirt package4.
• qemu-img pool vms:/vms is not a valid command syntax. The qemu-img command does not have a pool subcommand, and the vms:/vms argument is not a valid image specification5.
• touch /vms/.libvirtpool is not a valid command to create a storage pool. The touch command only creates an empty file, and the .libvirtpool file is not recognized by libvirt as a storage pool configuration file6.

References:

• 1: virsh - difference between pool-define-as and pool-create-as - Stack Overflow
• 2: dd(1) - Linux manual page - man7.org
• 3: 12.3.3. Creating a Directory-based Storage Pool with virsh - Red Hat Customer Portal
• 4: libvirt - Linux Man Pages (3)
• 5: qemu-img(1) - Linux manual page - man7.org
• 6: touch(1) - Linux manual page - man7.org

The subcommand of virsh that opens the XML configuration of a virtual network in an editor in order to make changes to that configuration is net-edit1. This subcommand takes the name or UUID of the network as a parameter and opens the network XML file in the default editor, which is specified by the $EDITOR shell variable1. The changes made to the network configuration are applied immediately after saving and exiting the editor1.

References:

• 1: net-edit - libvirt.