libvirt enables you to run that stuff side by side. I don't know the answer about the rpms, I just have done it on fedora core 8 before. I presume you could find out quicker than my by looking for it first if it is installed: rpm -q qemu if not, try to install it with yum yum install qemu Michael Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Michael Will wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:28:56 -0700: > > >> fyi: paravirtualized means the OS is new enough to have extensions to be >> virtualization-aware and support it in order to >> not have to emulate all of the hardware completely. The older OS would >> probably run fully virtualized, i.e. in a QEMU >> environment. >> > > Ahm, yes, sorry, that is why I wanted to try to run it fully virtualized. I > made a typo and skipped the "not" in "this probably would run > paravirtualized". Yes, I'm sure it won't run paravirtualized. > > AFAIK Xen can also install and run fully virtualized guests. The problem is > that install location. (maybe there are others, but this at least is the > one I'm facing now). > > Qemu: I haven't ever used it. Would you recommend using it in this case? > Can I run that side-by-side with Xen? Are the rpms part of CentOS? > > Kai > >