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Part II. Installation

Virtualization installation topics

These chapters cover setting up the host and installing virtualized guests with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. It is recommended to read these chapters carefully to ensure successful installation of virtualized guest operating systems.

Table of Contents

5. Installing the virtualization packages

5.1. Installing KVM with a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation
5.2. Installing KVM packages on an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux system

6. Virtualized guest installation overview

6.1. Virtualized guest prerequisites and considerations
6.2. Creating guests with virt-install
6.3. Creating guests with virt-manager
6.4. Installing guests with PXE

7. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a virtualized guest

7.1. Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with local installation media
7.2. Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with a network installation tree
7.3. Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest with PXE

8. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a para-virtualized guest on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

8.1. Using virt-install
8.2. Using virt-manager

9. Installing a fully-virtualized Windows guest

9.1. Using virt-install to create a guest
9.2. Installing Windows 2003