Trying to build a more secure version of a desktop with virtualization enabled. Goal is to perform most Internet surfing and on-line banking from a special-built and hardened Linux load.

Have built a bunch of complete "Desktop" versions of CentOS 5.5, 5.6, and 6.0 with this capability. This is the first time I've tried to go smaller. And smaller it is...by about 900 packages.

Built a CentOS 6 "Minimum Desktop" today. During the install I added virtualization. Virtualization works, but the guest OS can't communicate via the virtio interface.

Anyone able to do this? Any tips on what might be missing in the load?

Dave