Centos 5.8 The process of installing a KVM virtual machine

Introduction to KVM Virtual machines

The abbreviation for KVM (kernel-based virtual Machine) is an open source, fully virtualized solution. Since Linux2.6.20 is integrated in various distributions of Linux, KVM virtualization runs in the x86 architecture and requires the support of hardware (Intel VT or amd-v), which is managed using Linux's own scheduler. The following are detailed steps for installing the KVM virtual machine in detail above centos5.8.
1. See if the host's CPU supports KVM,VMX means the CPU supports Intel VT technology, and SVM represents the CPU support AMD-V technology.

2. Install the KVM software package, yum Groupinstall KVM.

3. Install bridging management tools, yum install Bridge-utils tunctl.

4. Set up the bridge network card configuration file, first back up the original configuration file.

4.1 Edit the Ifcfg-eth0 file.

4.2 Edit the Ifcfg-br0 file.

5. Install GUI management tools, yum install Virt-manager virt-viewer.