[CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

[James B. Byrne]

On Fri, November 6, 2009 13:50, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
>
> Evidently, one gets XEN.  I will get kvm from extras and go about
> installing it manually.
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>

# grep 'vmx' /proc/cpuinfo

flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr
lahf_lm


I installed kvm.x86_64-83-105.el5_4.9 successfully.  I also
installed virt-manager.  I tried to install qemu but failed due to
this file conflict:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/man/man1/qemu-img.1.gz from install of
qemu-0.9.0-4.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.9.x86_64

I infer from this that qemu is NOT required with KVM and that
kvm-qemu takes its place.

Proceeding to the next stage I tried to load the kvm-module:

# modprobe kvm-intel

Which fails like this:

FATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/weak-updates/kmod-kvm/kvm-intel.ko):
Operation not supported

So, what is going on?  What am I missing?  The CentOS HowTos on kvm
do not cover the current kernel insofar as I can see.

Sincerely,


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