[CentOS] KVM in CentOS 5?

Thu Aug 7 21:30:51 UTC 2014
Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>

On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:27:50 -0400
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:21:31PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 22:54:40 +0300
> > Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:
> > > 2014-08-07 22:49 GMT+03:00 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>:
> > > > I've been trying to do some KVM virtualization on a C5 host,
> > > > and to my surprise, there seems to be no kvm package in any of
> > > > the repos.
> > > 
> > > read docs at
> > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/pdf/Virtualization/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-5-Virtualization-en-US.pdf
> > 
> > I did read those. On page 31 the instructions say that kvm can
> > be installed via yum by saying "yum install kvm". That's where I got
> > stuck.
> 
> At the bottom of page 15 it specifies that you must be running a
> 64-bit OS on (obviously) 64-bit hardware. are you?

Oooh, no. The hardware certainly is 64-bit, and does have the vmx
flag. But it turns out that the C5 installed on it is 32-bit... Damn
old thing, I completely missed to check for OS arch.

I guess that explains it, then. Sorry for the noise. :-(

Thanks, :-)
Marko