Greetings, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Fabian Arrotin<fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote: > Victor Padro wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Kanwar Ranbir >> Sandhu<m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Is KVM support in CentOS 5.3 complete? That is, can a CentOS 5.3 system >>> host KVM VMs or does CentOS 5.3 only support being virtualized via KVM? >>> >>> I ask because I installed KVM on a CentOS 5.3 host, but I can't find a >>> kvm module anywhere in /lib/modules/* (let alone the running kernel). >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Ranbir >>> <snip> > > Please notice that this HowTo is quite old and doesn't reflect at all > what will happen with the upcoming kvm packages from 5.4 : i'm currently > testing those packages (from RHEL 5.4beta) with the newer libvirt, > virt-manager, virt-install on a CentOS 5.3 system and they work ok. > Maybe not. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM In section: 2.3. Installing later versions of KVM there is s teeny weeny link under "own website" lurks the link: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/ indeed it does provide kvm-85. Ok, OK I know the latest is kvm-88 but then we are talking Centos which by definition stays away from bleeding edge. But please be aware that the CPU should support [vmx|svm] and be beware that operting KVM with VMware server on same CPU can (or is it will?) give nightmares HTH Regards Rajagopal