Installing The Cisco Csr 1000V In Kvm Environments; Kernel Virtual Machine Support Information - Cisco CSR 1000v Series Software Configuration Manual

Installing the Cisco CSR 1000v in KVM
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Kernel Virtual Machine Support Information

The CSR1000v supports the following Linux/KVM environments:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
• Ubuntu (beginning with Cisco IOS XE Release 3.11S)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), an enterprise virtualization product produced by Red Hat, based on the
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), is an open source, full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware,
containing virtualization extensions.
Kernel Virtual Machine Support Information, page 113
KVM Support on OpenStack, page 114
Installation Requirements for KVM—Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.6, page 114
Creating a Cisco CSR 1000v KVM Instance, page 115
Creating the Cisco CSR 1000v on OpenStack, page 122
Bootstrapping the CSR Configuration, page 126
Increasing Performance on KVM Configurations, page 129
Cloning the VM, page 130
Installation Requirements for KVM—Cisco IOS XE Everest 16.5, page 130
Installation Requirements for KVM—Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.4, page 131
Installation Requirements for KVM—Cisco IOS XE Denali 16.3, page 131
Installation Requirements for KVM—Cisco IOS XE 3.x, page 132
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