Redhat:KVM Install

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KVM Installation

As with all software packages on Redhat, yum rpm and the gui tools can be used to install them.

qemu-kvm The Main KVM package
python-virtinst Command Line Tools for VMs
virt-manager GUI VM admin tool
virt-top VM statistics
virt-viewer GUI connections to VMs
libvirt C libraries for VMs
libvirt-client C libraries for VM clients


KVM Modules

To check that the correct modules have been loaded for KVM: 

[root@head ~]# lsmod | grep kvm

kvm_intel              50380  4
kvm                   305113  1 kvm_intel # Intel Systems
kvm                   305113  1 kvm_amd   # AMD systems
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