Download Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUALIZATION GUIDE Installation guide

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KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy
Contents
1.
Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Purpose of this document .............................................................................................................. 4
1.2 A very brief overview of KVM ........................................................................................................ 4
1.3 Terms & Conventions ...................................................................................................................... 4
2.
Preparing your environment............................................................................................................. 5
2.1 Hardware .......................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Virtualization Technology .............................................................................................................. 5
2.3 Required RPMs ................................................................................................................................. 5
2.4 OS Installation Source..................................................................................................................... 6
2.5 Disk Space ......................................................................................................................................... 6
2.6 Networking ....................................................................................................................................... 6
2.7 SELinux .............................................................................................................................................. 7
3.
Creating VMs ....................................................................................................................................... 8
4.
Cloning VMs ......................................................................................................................................... 9
5.
Managing VMs .................................................................................................................................... 10
5.1 Common tasks ................................................................................................................................ 10
5.2 Getting access to a VMs console ................................................................................................. 11
5.3 Attaching USB storage device to a VM ....................................................................................... 11
5.4 GUI Tools......................................................................................................................................... 12
6.
Changing VM parameters ................................................................................................................ 12
6.1 Memory............................................................................................................................................ 12
6.2 VCPUs .............................................................................................................................................. 13
6.3 Disk capacity .................................................................................................................................. 14
7.
Deleting VMs...................................................................................................................................... 14
8.
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................... 15
8.1 It‟s easy! ......................................................................................................................................... 15
8.2 Additional Documentation ........................................................................................................... 15
8.3 Future Topics ................................................................................................................................. 15