Installing Kvm With A New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUALIZATION GUIDE Manual

Chapter 5. Installing the virtualization packages
Fully virtualized guests on the Itanium® architecture require the guest firmware image package (xen-
ia64-guest-firmware) from the supplementary installation DVD. This package can also be can be
installed from RHN with the yum command:
# yum install xen-ia64-guest-firmware
It is advised to install additional virtualization packages for management and configuration.
Recommended virtualization packages:
Recommended virtualization packages:
python-virtinst
Provides the virt-install command for creating virtual machines.
libvirt
libvirt is an API library for interacting with hypervisors. libvirt uses the xm virtualization
framework and the virsh command line tool to manage and control virtual machines.
libvirt-python
The libvirt-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python
programming language to use the interface supplied by the libvirt API.
virt-manager
virt-manager, also known as Virtual Machine Manager, provides a graphical tool for
administering virtual machines. It uses libvirt library as the management API.
Install the other recommended virtualization packages:
# yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst
5.3. Installing KVM with a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installation
This section covers installing virtualization tools and KVM package as part of a fresh Red Hat
Enterprise Linux installation.
Need help installing?
The Installation Guide (available from
Linux in detail.
You need a valid installation number
You cannot select the virtualization packages during the installation without a valid
installation number.
1. Start an interactive Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Installation CD-ROM, DVD or PXE.
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