1.2. Subscriptions

To install the Red Hat Virtualization Manager and hosts, your systems must be registered with the Content Delivery Network using Red Hat Subscription Management. This section outlines the subscriptions and repositories required to set up a Red Hat Virtualization environment.

1.2.1. Required Subscriptions and Repositories

The packages provided in the following repositories are required to install and configure a functioning Red Hat Virtualization environment. When one of these repositories is required to install a package, the steps required to enable the repository are provided in the appropriate location in the documentation.

Table 1.1. Red Hat Virtualization Manager
Subscription Pool	Repository Name	Repository Label	Details
`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`rhel-7-server-rpms`	Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server.
`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`RHEL Server Supplementary`	`rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms`	Provides the virtio-win package, which provides the Windows VirtIO drivers for use in virtual machines.
`Red Hat Virtualization`	`Red Hat Virtualization`	`rhel-7-server-rhv-4.3-manager-rpms`	Provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager.
`Red Hat Virtualization`	`Red Hat Virtualization Tools`	`rhel-7-server-rhv-4-manager-tools-rpms`	Provides dependencies for the the Red Hat Virtualization Manager that are common to all Red Hat Virtualization 4 releases.
`Red Hat Ansible Engine`	`Red Hat Ansible Engine`	`rhel-7-server-ansible-2.9-rpms`	Provides Red Hat Ansible Engine.
`Red Hat Virtualization`	`Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform`	`jb-eap-7.2-for-rhel-7-server-rpms`	Provides the supported release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on which the Manager runs.

Table 1.2. Red Hat Virtualization Host
Subscription Pool	Repository Name	Repository Label	Details
`Red Hat Virtualization`	`Red Hat Virtualization Host`	`rhel-7-server-rhvh-4-rpms`	Provides the `rhev-hypervisor7-ng-image-update` package, which allows you to update the image installed on the host.

Table 1.3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Hosts
Subscription Pool	Repository Name	Repository Label	Details
`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`rhel-7-server-rpms`	Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server.
`Red Hat Virtualization`	`Red Hat Virtualization Management Agents (RPMs)`	`rhel-7-server-rhv-4-mgmt-agent-rpms`	Provides the QEMU and KVM packages required for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 servers as virtualization hosts.
`Red Hat Ansible Engine`	`Red Hat Ansible Engine`	`rhel-7-server-ansible-2.9-rpms`	Provides Red Hat Ansible Engine.

1.2.2. Optional Subscriptions and Repositories

The packages provided in the following repositories are not required to install and configure a functioning Red Hat Virtualization environment. However, they are required to install packages that provide supporting functionality on virtual machines and client systems such as virtual machine resource monitoring. When one of these repositories is required to install a package, the steps required to enable the repository are provided in the appropriate location in the documentation.

Table 1.4. Optional Subscriptions and Repositories
Subscription Pool	Repository Name	Repository Label	Details
`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - RH Common (v.7 Server for x86_64)`	`rhel-7-server-rh-common-rpms`	Provides the `ovirt-guest-agent-common` package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, which allows you to monitor virtual machine resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 clients.
`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`Red Hat Enterprise Virt Agent (v.6 Server for x86_64)`	`rhel-6-server-rhv-4-agent-rpms`	Provides the `ovirt-guest-agent-common` package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, which allows you to monitor virtual machine resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 clients.
`Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server`	`Red Hat Enterprise Virt Agent (v.5 Server for x86_64)`	`rhel-5-server-rhv-4-agent-rpms`	Provides the `rhevm-guest-agent` package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which allows you to monitor virtual machine resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 clients.
`Red Hat Virtualization`	`Red Hat Virtualization Host Build`	`rhel-7-server-rhvh-4-build-rpms`	Provides packages used to build your own version of the Red Hat Virtualization Host image.

1.2. Subscriptions

1.2.1. Required Subscriptions and Repositories

1.2.2. Optional Subscriptions and Repositories

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