Installing Kvm Packages On An Existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux System - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUALIZATION GUIDE Manual

Chapter 5. Installing the virtualization packages
5.4. Installing KVM packages on an existing Red Hat
Enterprise Linux system
The section describes the steps for installing the KVM hypervisor on a working Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.4 or newer system.
Adding packages to your list of Red Hat Network entitlements
This section describes how to enable Red Hat Network (RHN) entitlements for the virtualization
packages. You need these entitlements enabled to install and update the virtualization packages on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You require a valid Red Hat Network account in order to install virtualization
packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In addition, your machines must be registered with RHN. To register an unregistered installation of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, run the rhn_register command and follow the prompts.
If you do not have a valid Red Hat subscription, visit the
Procedure 5.2. Adding the Virtualization entitlement with RHN
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1. Log in to using your RHN username and password.
2. Select the systems you want to install virtualization on.
In the System Properties section the present systems entitlements are listed next to the
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Entitlements header. Use the (Edit These Properties) link to change your entitlements.
Select the Virtualization checkbox.
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Your system is now entitled to receive the virtualization packages. The next section covers installing
these packages.
Installing the KVM hypervisor with yum
To use virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux you require the kvm package. The kvm package
contains the KVM kernel module providing the KVM hypervisor on the default Red Hat Enterprise
Linux kernel.
To install the kvm package, run:
# yum install kvm
Now, install additional virtualization management 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.
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