Virtualization

[suvayu ali]

On 2 April 2010 16:49, David Bartmess <dingodave at edingo.net> wrote:
> On 4/2/2010 4:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Friday 02 April 2010 03:14 PM, David Bartmess wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on F12, and I've tried to install kvm via yum, but yum says no
>>> matching packages... Is this a F13 thing?
>>>
>>> "sudo yum install kvm" returns nothing...
>>>
>>>
>> Whenever in doubt about package names you can try commands like these,
>>
>> $ yum search kvm
>> $ yum list \*kvm\*
>> $ yum whatprovides \*/bin/\*kvm
>>
>> And then there are also tools like repoquery which come with yum-utils.
>> Yum is one of the most powerful tools one can have for package management.
>>
>> :)
>>
> I don't find kvm anywhere. Is there a specific repository I need to add
> to my list?
>

The last command should have returned you the proper package name,
qemu-system. :) And as Rahul said, kvm is part of the kernel. What you
get from the package are the qemu tools to make use of the kvm module
in the kernel. A small note, you need to be root to start using the
kvm module. Once that is done, any user on the system can use the vm.

> --
> "Dingo" Dave Bartmess

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Suvayu

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