Specifications

Red Hat Virtualization System

Requirements

The items listed below are required by the Red Hat Virtualization system:

• A working Red Hat RHEL 5 Linux distribution

• A working GRUB bootloader

• Root access

• A P6 class (or earlier) processor

• The Linux bridge-utils

• The Linux hotplug systems

• zlib development installation

• Python 2.2 runtime

• initscripts

The dependencies are configured automatically during the installation process.

Note

If your system CPU architecture is ia64, you need to manually install the

xen-ia64-guest-firmware package to run a fully virtualized guest. This

package is provided in the Supplementary CD and is not installed by default.

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