Installation guide

Chapter 8. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a para-virtualized guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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The graphical console opens showing the initial boot phase of the guest:
After your guest has completed its initial boot, the standard installation process for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 starts. For most systems the default answers are acceptable.
Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Installation Guide for more information on installing Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.
8.2. Using virt-manager
Procedure 8.1. Creating a para-virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with virt-manager
1. Open virt-manager
Start virt-manager. Launch the Virtual Machine Manager application from the Applications
menu and System Tools submenu. Alternatively, run the virt-manager command as root.
2. Select the hypervisor
Select the hypervisor. Note that presently the KVM hypervisor is named qemu.
Connect to a hypervisor if you have not already done so. Open the File menu and select the Add
Connection... option. Refer to Section 31.5, “Adding a remote connection”.
Once a hypervisor connection is selected the New button becomes available. Press the New
button.