On Thu, Aug 16, 2012, Arun Khan wrote: >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. Thanks. I found that after doing some poking around. I'll be in my normal 'learn by destroying' mode this afternoon (apologies to Jeff Lieberman of learnbydestroying.com :-). >The interface is very similar to virtual box. I've never used that, only VMware so far. >> >> 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. Thanks for that info. It looks like everything is under /var/lib/libvrt. I assume that I can replace /var/lib/libvirt/images with a symlink to another file system with adequate space. Would it be safe to symlink the entire /var/lib/libvrt directory to another file system? I just tried 'lsof /var/lib/libvirt' on the system with no VMs and the libvrtd service running, and it doesn't show anything using it at idle. >> + 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. I will be digging into this later today. So far I've found the file /var/lib/libvirt/network/default.xml and see a vibr0 interface defined. The documentation I found yesterday described setting up briding, but hopefully virt-manager has a nicer way to do it. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Our Foreign dealings are an Open Book, generally a Check Book. Will Rogers