[CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?
MargoAndTodd
margoandtodd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 12:02:16 EST 2010
On 11/10/2010 08:31 PM, Mark Pryor wrote:
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> --- On Wed, 11/10/10, jayeola at gmail.com<jayeola at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: jayeola at gmail.com<jayeola at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?
>> To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS"<centos-virt at centos.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 7:15 PM
>> rpm -ql kvm
>> rpm -qa | grep kvm
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>
> to continue this:
> ------------- verify an amd64 install of kvm --------------
> $ rpm -qa | grep kvm
> etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> kvm-83-164.el5_5.21
> kmod-kvm-83-164.el5_5.21
>
> $ sudo lsmod | grep kvm
> kvm_amd 69416 0
> kvm 226336 2 ksm,kvm_amd
>
> yum install bridge-utils tunctl
> ------------- snip ---------
>
> kvm is basically qemu.
> The kvm launcher is (by default) not in your path:
> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm
>
> request help on qemu-kvm and you will see almost the same thing which is in qemu.
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> Trying to learn kvm via libvirt is over-kill - stick with the commandline.
>
> To launch a live CD do
> #/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -cdrom /path-to/pup-431.iso -boot d -m 384
> -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net tap -localtime -usb&
>
> this works over ssh too if you forward X.
>
Thank you!
Fedora 13 Live CD:
qemu-kvm -cdrom ./Fedora-13-i686-Live-XFCE.iso -boot d -m 384 -net
nic,model=rtl8139 -localtime -usb
Froze up at "automatic boot in 10 seconds". This is probably because my
CentOS 5.5 is 32 bit and I am running a really old version of qemu-kvm.
BartPE (Windows XP Personal Edition on a CDROM):
qemu-kvm -cdrom ./KAS7.Bart.iso -boot d -m 384 -net nic,model=rtl8139
-localtime -usb -smp 2
Ran very well. Even found my rtl8139.
I have to work on the TAP device thing.
-T
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