Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUALIZATION GUIDE Manual page 18

Chapter 1. System requirements
KVM requirements
The KVM hypervisor requires:
• an Intel processor with the Intel VT and the Intel 64 extensions, or
• an AMD processor with the AMD-V and the AMD64 extensions.
Section 31.6, "Verifying virtualization extensions"
Refer to
virtualization extensions.
Storage support
The supported guest storage methods are:
• files on local storage,
• physical disk partitions,
• locally connected physical LUNs,
• LVM partitions, and
• iSCSI and Fibre Channel based LUNs.
File-based guest storage
File-based guest images should be stored in the /var/lib/libvirt/images/ folder.
If you use a different directory you must add the directory to the SELinux policy. Refer to
Section 17.2, "SELinux and virtualization"
4
to determine if your processor has the
for details.