[CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x
Arun Khan
knura9 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 13:41:19 UTC 2012
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.
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