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4.2. Basic Requirements and Setup
To set up a KVM virtual machine on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, your system must meet the following criteria:
- Architecture
- Virtualization with the KVM hypervisor is currently only supported on Intel 64 and AMD64 systems.
- Disk space and RAM
- Minimum:
- 6 GB free disk space
- 2 GB RAM
- Customer Portal subscription
- To install virtualization packages, your host machine must be registered and subscribed to the Red Hat Customer Portal. To register run the
subscription-manager registercommand and follow the prompts. Alternatively, run the Red Hat Subscription Manager application fromon the desktop to register. If you do not have a valid Red Hat subscription, visit the Red Hat online store to obtain one. For more information on registering and subscribing a system to the Red Hat Customer Portal, see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/253273. - Required packages
- Before you can use virtualization, a basic set of virtualization packages must be installed on your computer.
Procedure 4.1. Installing the virtualization packages with
yumTo use virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux the libvirt, qemu-kvm and qemu-img packages must be installed. These packages provide the user-level KVM emulator and disk image manager on the host system.- Install the qemu-kvm, qemu-img, libvirt, and virt-manager packages with the following command:
yum install qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt virt-manager
# yum install qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt virt-managerCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - Download a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Workstation binary DVD ISO image from the Red Hat Customer Portal. This image will be used to install the guest virtual machine's operating system.
Note
If you encounter any problems during the installation process, see the Troubleshooting section of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Virtualization Host Configuration and Guest Installation Guide.
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