From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: using KVM on FC7 (x86_64) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:39:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20070628123951.GC16385@redhat.com> References: Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Mark Ryden Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/