Installation guide

Chapter 7.

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as

a virtualized guest

This Chapter covers how to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a fully virtualized guest on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 6.

This procedure assumes that the KVM hypervisor and all other required packages are installed and

the host is configured for virtualization. For more information on installing the virtualization pacakges,

refer to Chapter 5, Installing the virtualization packages.

7.1. Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with local

installation media

This procedure covers creating a virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with a locally stored

installation DVD or DVD image. DVD images are available from rhn.redhat.com

for Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 6.

Procedure 7.1. Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with virt-manager

1. Optional: Preparation

Prepare the storage environment for the virtualized guest. For more information on preparing

storage, refer to Part V, “Virtualization storage topics”.

Note

Various storage types may be used for storing virtualized guests. However, for a guest to be

able to use migration features the guest must be created on networked storage.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 requires at least 1GB of storage space. However, Red Hat

recommends at least 5GB of storage space for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation and for

the procedures in this guide.

2. Open virt-manager and start the wizard

Open virt-manager by executing the virt-manager command as root or opening Applications ->

System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager.

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