--- On Wed, 11/10/10, jayeola at gmail.com <jayeola at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > 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. -- Mark