using KVM on FC7 (x86_64)

using KVM on FC7 (x86_64)

[Mark Ryden]

Hello,
 I want to use KVM on FC7 (x86_64) on a CPU with VT-x support;
 there is a kvm module as part of the kernel ; the problem is that there
 is no user space tool for creating the image from the iso;
 "locate qemu-system-x86_64" does not find anything;
 I thought of building last release of KVM from source, but running ./configure
 shows that  gcc-3 is needed. There is gcc4 on this machine and there is
 no gcc3 rpm for FC7;
 can I build kvm-28 with --disable-gcc-check on this machine and then use the
 generated user space tool qemu-system-x86_64 to create the image ?
 and also use this generated qemu-system-x86_64 for running that image
 (and use the kvm module which came as part of the kernel, which is
 natually of a different version) ?

What should I do in order to run kvm on FC7 (x86_64)?

Please advice,

Mark

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Re: using KVM on FC7 (x86_64)

[Dor Laor]

>Hello,
> I want to use KVM on FC7 (x86_64) on a CPU with VT-x support;
> there is a kvm module as part of the kernel ; the problem is that
there
> is no user space tool for creating the image from the iso;
> "locate qemu-system-x86_64" does not find anything;
> I thought of building last release of KVM from source, but running
>./configure
> shows that  gcc-3 is needed. There is gcc4 on this machine and there
is
> no gcc3 rpm for FC7;
> can I build kvm-28 with --disable-gcc-check on this machine and then
use
>the
> generated user space tool qemu-system-x86_64 to create the image ?
> and also use this generated qemu-system-x86_64 for running that image
> (and use the kvm module which came as part of the kernel, which is
> natually of a different version) ?
>
>What should I do in order to run kvm on FC7 (x86_64)?

Try qemu-kvm for a binary.
In general you can always look at the content of rpm package by rpm -ql
PKG_NAME.

For gcc-3 you can do yum install compat-gcc-34

>
>Please advice,
>
>Mark
>
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Re: using KVM on FC7 (x86_64)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:25:11PM +0300, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
>  I want to use KVM on FC7 (x86_64) on a CPU with VT-x support;
>  there is a kvm module as part of the kernel ; the problem is that there
>  is no user space tool for creating the image from the iso;
>  "locate qemu-system-x86_64" does not find anything;
>  I thought of building last release of KVM from source, but running ./configure
>  shows that  gcc-3 is needed. There is gcc4 on this machine and there is
>  no gcc3 rpm for FC7;
>  can I build kvm-28 with --disable-gcc-check on this machine and then use the
>  generated user space tool qemu-system-x86_64 to create the image ?
>  and also use this generated qemu-system-x86_64 for running that image
>  (and use the kvm module which came as part of the kernel, which is
>  natually of a different version) ?
> 
> What should I do in order to run kvm on FC7 (x86_64)?

Fedora 7 provides RPms of everything you need..

  yum install kvm qemu virt-manager

Then reboot

And then launch 'Applications -> System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager'

Regards,
Dan.
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