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Chapter 2. Subscriptions

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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.

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 2.1. Red Hat Virtualization Manager
Subscription PoolRepository NameRepository LabelDetails

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms

Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization

rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

jb-eap-7.4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides the supported release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on which the Manager runs.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 (RPMs)

fast-datapath-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides Open vSwitch (OVS) packages.

Table 2.2. Red Hat Virtualization Host
Subscription PoolRepository NameRepository LabelDetails

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization Host

rhvh-4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides the redhat-virtualization-host-image-update package, which allows you to update the image installed on the host.

Table 2.3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Hosts
Subscription PoolRepository NameRepository LabelDetails

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms

Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization Management Agents (RPMs)

rhv-4-mgmt-agent-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides the QEMU and KVM packages required for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 servers as virtualization hosts.

Red Hat Advanced Virtualization

Red Hat Advanced Virtualization

advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides packages for advanced virtualization.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 (RPMs)

fast-datapath-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

Provides Open vSwitch (OVS) packages.

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