eric wrote ------------------- That's not my understanding. I watched someone else follow the procedure here: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-a-centos-6.0-server and I believe he started with the minimal installation on the host. - ------------------- thought I missed something and re-read....his next page says he is using netinstall and ....wait for it.. connecting to remote server to get the media to install the guest.. seems impossible I guess...gonna need to set up a home server for my production server to install guests.. seems like an extraordinary waste of bandwidth to do it that way.