Chapter 4. Red Hat Virtualization System Requirements

Chapter 4. Red Hat Virtualization System Requirements

Chapter 4. Red Hat Virtualization System Requirements

The items listed below are required by the Red Hat Virtualization system:

A working Red Hat RHEL 5 Linux distribution
A working GRUB bootloader
Root access
A P6 class (or earlier) processor
The Linux bridge-utils
The Linux hotplug systems
zlib development installation
Python 2.2 runtime
initscripts

The dependencies are configured automatically during the installation process.

Note

If your system CPU architecture is ia64, you need to manually install the xen-ia64-guest-firmware package to run a fully virtualized guest. This package is provided in the Supplementary CD and is not installed by default.

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