Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux As A Fully Virtualized Guest - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUALIZATION GUIDE Manual

7.2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a fully virtualized
guest
This section covers installing a fully virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guest. This procedure
covers both the KVM and the Xen hypervisors; the steps are interchangeable and different steps are
noted.
The KVM hypervisor requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or newer.
Procedure 7.3. Creating a fully virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guest with virt-manager
Open virt-manager
1.
Start virt-manager. Launch the Virtual Machine Manager application from the Applications
menu and System Tools submenu. Alternatively, run the virt-manager command as root.
Select the hypervisor
2.
Select the hypervisor. If installed, select Xen or KVM. For this example, select KVM. Note that
presently KVM is named qemu.

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