Today I am going to talk about creating virtual machines using qemu-kvm. I'll be using Scientific Linux (a.k.a. Enterprise Linux much like Red Had and Centos) for this. A very good guide is available for Fedora at fedora wiki.
Step 3: Launch "Virtual Machine Manager" from the menu bar or just run
Example:
You are done! You can launch the machine using "Virtual Machine Manager" or by using
Have fun and do comment if I have missed on something or you have any tips and tricks.
Optional: Install yumex. It is a good package manager for yum. Much better than the default stuff shipped with standard distro. It is better for guys who like to do gui based installation.
Step 1: Install following packages:
yum install qemu-kvm python-virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer libvirt
Step 2: Start the libvertd service
service libvirtd start
Step 3: Launch "Virtual Machine Manager" from the menu bar or just run
virt-install --prompt
for an interactive CLI virtual machine creation. A one line install is also possible. Read man virt-install
carefully before attempting this. Example:
virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n fed15-kvm -r 768 --vcpus=2 -f fed15-kvm -s 12 -c ../iso_files/fed15_64.iso --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type linux --os-variant fedora14 --accelerate --network=bridge:virbr0 --hvm
You are done! You can launch the machine using "Virtual Machine Manager" or by using
virsh --connect qemu:///system start fed15-kvm
where fed15-kvm is the name of my VM, though using command will start it in background.Have fun and do comment if I have missed on something or you have any tips and tricks.
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