--- On Wed, 11/10/10, jayeola@gmail.com jayeola@gmail.com wrote:
From: jayeola@gmail.com jayeola@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions? To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" centos-virt@centos.org Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 7:15 PM rpm -ql kvm rpm -qa | grep kvm
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.
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.