On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: > Can somebody point me to a HowTO or other documentation describing the > tools available under the CentOS 5 KVM package to create and manage a > Windows 7 Pro VM? All my VM experience to date has been the old free > VMware Server. Assuming you have hardware acceleration and 64 bit version installed, look for the virt-manager package. The interface is very similar to virtual box. > > I need to: > + Create the VM instance allowing for about 50GB total disk space which > will be either a single image partitioned into two Windows 'Drives' > for the OS and applications/data, or two images. The default location for the hard disk image file is under /var/lib path. This can be changed to point to a different location if you are planning many such large installation. An alternate method could be to define a file or a LVM and then tell virt-manager the location of this file/LVM volume. > + Install Windows 7 from an OEM System Builder Pack, either using the > CD/DVD drive on the Linux server or from an image created with 'dd' > from the Win7 media. Any x86 OS can be installed. Choose a NIC like Realtek or Intel Pro, drivers for which should be recognizable by the Windows installer. > + Set up network bridging on the private LAN so that the Windows system > is accessible via OpenVPN connections from the outside world and by > users on the LAN to run a client/server accounting application. I have done KVM VLANs but I am not sure if it can be done from the virt-manager. Experiment and see how far you can go. Best, -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of Higgs Boson particle.