RHCSA Study Guide – Objective 10 : Virtualization

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Everything below are my raw notes that I took while attending an unofficial RHCSA training session.  I am posting them here in hopes they will assist others who may be preparing to take this exam.  

My notes are my own interpretation of the lectures, and are certainly not a replacement to classroom training either through your company, or by taking the official RHCSA classes offered through Red Hat.  If you are new to the Red Hat world, I strongly suggest looking into their training courses over at Red Hat.
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Virtualization

EXAM NOTE: This will not be on the test since the test is on a vm… so they can’t test for it at the time of this writing as far as I can tell.

RHEL6 virtualization is done by:

- KVM
- QEMU

To run it, you must be on a 64-bit system and the kernel virtualization extensions much be enabled on the cpu’s. (ie. VT (VMX) and AMD-V (svm))

To get this working, 4 package groups are needed to get this setup:

- Virtualization
- Virtualization Client
- Virtualization Platform
- Virtualization Tools

Libvirt is the management framework used in RHEL6 virtualization.

Interface to libvirt available is:

- virsh : cli
- virt-manager : GUI client (Not exactly feature rich...)