2014-08-07 23:21 GMT+03:00 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>: > 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. > > > Why you are using Centos 5 ? version 6 and 7 are already released? > > This host is a remote machine, and I will not have physical access to > it until next month. While I do plan to scrap it and install C7, I > don't feel like attempting to do that remotely. :-) > > As for guests that should run on that host, I figured that I could > create and run them even now, and just back them up when I get to > upgrading the host. I wouldn't like to waste a whole month of guests not > running, just waiting for the host upgrade. > > So, is there any possibility to have kvm on C5? > yes, just do 'yum install kvm' and remember that x86_64 cpu with hardware virtualization is needed .. -- Eero