Installation guide

Chapter 3. KVM restrictions and support

The KVM hypervisor requires a processor with the Intel-VT or AMD-V virtualization extensions.

To verify the presence of the extensions in your system, see Section 33.6, “ Verifying virtualization

extensions” .

The following URLs explain the processor and memory amount limitations for Red Hat Enterprise

Linux:

For host systems: http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/server/compare.html

For hypervisors: http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/virtualization-limits-rhel-

hypervisors

The following URL shows a complete matrix of supported operating systems and host and guest

combinations:

http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/enterprise-linux-virtualization-support

⁠Chapt er 3. KVM rest rict ions and support