kvm virtualization in RHEL 5.4 Beta, howto

[Le Wen]

Yes, it's not supported in RHEL5.3 by default, so I upgrade my kernel to 
2.6.24 and enable KVM , download KVM package and install it. Then I can 
use qemu command to create a VM. 

I haven't tested RHEL5.4, you can try if there's such qemu command.






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2009/8/12 Le Wen <wenle at lenovo.com>

> Hi there,
>
>     I don't know what to do in RHEL5.4, but in RHEL5.3, using
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>      qemu-img create -f qcow /vm/vdisk.img 20G
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>     to create the virtual disk
>
>    qemu-kvm -hda /vm/vdisk.img -cdrom /vm/iso/w2k3.iso -boot d  -m 1024
>
>      to create the virtual machine,
>
>      and finally, using
>
>    qemu-kvm /vm/vdisk.img -m 1024
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>     to boot the installed vm.
>
>
>
Hi Len,

I´m totally overwhelmed with your answer.

The use of kvm is one of the great, great news in RHEL, in fact, it´s 
still
in Beta. So I don´t understad how you can use it on 5.3.

on the other hand I don´t have the qemu-kvm command in my RHEL 5.3 
systems.
(the qemu commands comes with the supplementary packages but I don´t have
the kvm command)

How do I install the qemu-kvm command?

Thanks for your answer,

ESG




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> Hi Thomas,
> thanks for your answer.
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> When I run virt-manager (as I do with xen) and try to use kvm I dont see
> this option anywhere.
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> When I try to add a connection the hypervisors avaliable are xen and 
qemu
> (like with previous version of RH)
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> How I build the kvm guest (sorry if this is a silly question, but I 
don´t
> see how to make it)
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> Thanks,
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> ESG
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> 2009/8/11 Thomas von Steiger <thomas.vonsteiger at bluewin.ch>
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> >
> > On 11.08.2009, at 15:02, ESGLinux wrote:
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> >  Hi all,
> >> I have installed the RHEL 5.4  Beta (see the press
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> 
http://press.redhat.com/2009/07/02/red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-4-beta-now-available/?sc_cid=70160000000Hv6dAAC

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> >> )
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> >> and I want to test KVM virtualization, but I don´t know how to test
> >> because
> >> I´m totall newbie to this kind of virtualization.
> >>
> >> I have installed the KVM group from pirut, but I dont see how to test
> it.
> >>
> >> someone knows a good KVM-howto and the utilities that comes with RHEL
> 5.4
> >> Beta for manage it?
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> >
> > You can use virt-manager, virsh, virt-viewer from rhel5.4 beta to 
build
> kvm
> > guests.
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> > Thomas
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