Kvm cli installation redhat 6

Sources

• Docs https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/index.html
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/index.html
• Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVvHCb-ixF4

Steps

• https://access.redhat.com/certified-hypervisors check that it works your gust system
• egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
  • check cpu virtualization capacity
• yum install qemu-kvm python-virtinst virt-manager virt-top virt-viewer libvirt libvirt-client
  • maybe not virt-manager, since no server gui
• lsmod | grep kvm
  • kernel modules
• df -h
  • choose partition bigger 75GB?
• check ls /var/lib/libvirt/images/
  • should be empty
• mkdir -p /var/home/qemu/images
• chown -R qemu:qemu /var/home/qemu
• chcon --reference /var/lib/libvirt/images/ /home/qemu
• chcon --reference /var/lib/libvirt/images/ /home/qemu/images
• rmdir /var/lib/libvirt/images/
• ln -s /var/home/qemu/images/ /var/lib/libvirt/images
• cd /var/lib/libvirt/
  • ls -l
• service NetworkManager status
  • service NetworkManager stop
  • chkconfig NetworkManager off
  • chkconfig NetworkManager --list ( all level)

.... sorry see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVvHCb-ixF4, for the moment dropped for docker :)