Installing Software Via The Satellite Web Interface; Installing Software Via Yum From The Virtual System; Restarting Guests When Host Reboots - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Reference Manual

Chapter 10. Virtualization
This should provide you with a list all of the guests you created on your Satellite, including their ID
number. look for the guest, guest1, that we created earlier in this list. If, for example, this guest
has been assigned an ID of 2, then:
2. Run the following command to access the console of this virtual system:
xm console 2
You should immediately be able to view a login prompt on guest1.
3. Login to guest1 as root using the same password you set in the kickstart profile you used to
provision the system.
(There may be some messages on the screen. In this case, hit the Enter key on your keyboard to
receive a fresh login prompt.)
4. To exit the guest console and return to the host system's command prompt, you may hit the Ctrl
and ] keys on your keyboard simultaneously.

10.3.3. Installing Software Via the Satellite Web Interface

1. Browse to the virtual system's profile in your Satellite's web interface by logging in and navigating
to Systems Systems Virtual Systems and clicking on the name of your virtual system's
profile.
2. In the virtual system's profile, click on the Software Packages tab.
3. Click on Install New Packages in the Packages tab menu.
4. Select the packages you wish to install and click the Install Selected Packages button in the
lower right-hand corner of the screen.
5. Review the package install details and click on the Confirm button in the lower right-hand corner
of the screen.
6. The package install will take place the next time the guest system checks in with the Satellite. To
force the install to take place immediately, you may run the rhn_check command on the guest
system.

10.3.4. Installing Software Via Yum From the Virtual System

Your virtual system registered to your Satellite as part of the guest provisioning process, so you may
simply use the yum command to install and update software. For example, to install the text editor vim,
issue the following command:
yum install -y vim-enhanced

10.3.5. Restarting Guests when Host Reboots

By default, when a host system reboots, the guests are not restarted and must be manually started by
the administrator.
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