Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (v.6 x86-64)
channel must be available on your Red Hat Network account to download the Hypervisor image. The channel's label is rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevh
.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor Beta (v.6 x86-64)
channel, also referred to by the identifier rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevh-beta
in Red Hat Network.
/usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/
directory and named rhev-hypervisor.iso
.
rhevh-iso-to-disk
and rhevh-iso-to-pxeboot
scripts are now included in the rhev-hypervisor6-tools sub-package. They are installed to the /usr/bin
directory.
rhev-hypervisor.iso
is now a symbolic link to a uniquely-named version of the Hypervisor ISO image, such as /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/rhevh-6.2-20111006.0.el6.iso
. Different versions of the Hypervisor ISO can be installed alongside each other, allowing administrators to run and maintain a cluster on a previous version of the Hypervisor while upgrading another cluster for testing.
Subscribe to the correct channel
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (v.6 x86_64)
channel on Red Hat Network.
# rhn-channel --add --channel=rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevh
Install the Hypervisor
# yum install rhev-hypervisor6
root
user and navigate to the location of the downloaded file to perform this step.
# yum localinstall rhev-hypervisor*.rpm
: linux rescue
# grep -E 'svm|vmx' /proc/cpuinfo
# lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel
or kvm_amd
then the kvm hardware virtualization modules are loaded and the system meets the requirements.