RHEL 7 Virtualization Host Installation

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• Linux Virtualization Installation

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• RHEL 7.3

Host Prerequisites

The host requires minimum 6 GB of free disk space and minimum 2 GB or RAM.

Installed with 50 GB root partition and 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap.

Host Installation

Install the host operating system as described here. The only area in which the installation procedure differs is the storage provisioning. When configuring storage, follow the Storage Provisioning instructions, below:

RHEL 7 Installation

Packages

qemu-kvm
qemu-img
libvirt
virt-manager

Guest Creation

virt-install