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