I want to be able to play with KVM on my CentOS 7 system. I did 'yum groupinstall "Virtualization Host"' That did install several packages, but I still don't have KVM. I did 'yum install kvm virt-manager libvirt virt-install qemu-kvm' That installed more packages, but I still don't have KVM. I used the RHEL docs, and
https://access.redhat.com/documentat...ux_system.html says:
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Package Group Description Mandatory Packages Optional Packages
Virtualization Hypervisor Smallest possible virtualization host installation libvirt, qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools
Virtualization Client Clients for installing and managing virtualization instances gnome-boxes, virt-install, virt-manager, virt-viewer virt-top, libguestfs-tools, libguestfs-tools-c
Virtualization Platform Provides an interface for accessing and controlling virtual machines and containers libvirt, libvirt-client, virt-who fence-virtd-libvirt, fence-virtd-multicast, fence-virtd-serial, libvirt-cim, libvirt-java, libvirt-snmp, perl-Sys-Virt
Virtualization Tools Tools for offline virtual image management libguestfs libguestfs-java, libguestfs-tools, libguestfs-tools-c
However:
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[root@tarantula ~]# yum groupinstall "Virtualization Hypervisor"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00
base | 3.6 kB 00:00
epel/x86_64/metalink | 13 kB 00:00
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.chi.host-engine.com
* epel: linux.mirrors.es.net
* extras: mirror.hostduplex.com
* updates: repos.dfw.quadranet.com
Maybe run: yum groups mark install (see man yum)
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
Googling led to many results suggesting to use 'yum groups mark install foo; yum groups mark convert foo' That didn't help. Others suggested 'yum groupinstall foo --setopt=group_package_types=mandatory,default,optional' That didn't help, either. So... how does one add virtualization to an existing host? The wiki has a HOWTO, but it's for CentOS 6.
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[root@tarantula ~]# rpm -qa | grep kvm
qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-105.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.3.x86_64
[root@tarantula ~]# rpm -qa | grep virt
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
virt-manager-common-1.2.1-8.el7.noarch
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-client-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-network-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-gobject-0.1.9-1.el7.x86_64
virt-what-1.13-6.el7.x86_64
libvirt-python-1.2.17-2.el7.x86_64
libgovirt-0.3.3-1.el7_2.1.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-glib-0.1.9-1.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
virt-install-1.2.1-8.el7.noarch
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
virt-manager-1.2.1-8.el7.noarch
libvirt-daemon-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-gconfig-0.1.9-1.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
[root@tarantula ~]# rpm -qa | grep qemu
qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-105.el7_2.3.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.17-13.el7_2.3.x86_64
qemu-system-x86-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64
qemu-img-1.5.3-105.el7_2.3.x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-2.3.0-4.el7.x86_64
qemu-common-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.3.x86_64
ipxe-roms-qemu-20130517-8.gitc4bce43.el7_2.1.noarch
[root@tarantula ~]# uname -a
Linux tarantula 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 19 22:10:57 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@tarantula ~]# lsmod | grep kvm
[root@tarantula ~]# yum install kvm
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.chi.host-engine.com
* epel: linux.mirrors.es.net
* extras: mirror.hostduplex.com
* updates: repos.dfw.quadranet.com
Package 2:qemu-system-x86-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
