RHEL 7 Virtualization Host Installation
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Virtualization Host Prerequisites
The host requires minimum 6 GB of free disk space and minimum 2 GB or RAM.
Installed with 50 GB root partition, 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap.
Virtualization Host Installation
if the virtualization host runs on a Dell server, install the host operating system following the procedure described here:
The procedure will update the Dell firmware and drivers and then will pass control to the native O/S installer, that should be driven as described below. 'Note that the only areas in which the virtualization host installation procedure differs from a regular server installation procedure is Storage Provisioning and '. When configuring storage, follow the Storage Provisioning instructions, below:
Otherwise, install the host operating system as described here.
Storage Provisioning
Mount Point: /boot capacity 1024 MiB, standard partition xfs file system (/dev/sda3)
Mount Point: / capacity 50 GiB, standard partition xfs file system (/dev/sda5)
Mount Point: /swap capacity 4 GiB (/dev/sda6)
Leave the rest of the space unallocated, will create later the LVM pool.
Virtualization Host-Specific Configuration
Virtualization Packages
yum install -y qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt virt-manager libguestfs-tools libvirt-client virt-install libguestfs-tools-c