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Installation Prerequisites
The configuration and installation of the Dell ULNM with KVM on RHEL 6 and Debian 5.0 (Lenny) has
been tested on the following KVM environment:
• RHEL 6 x86_64 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6)
• Debian 5.0 (Lenny) x86_64
• kernel version 2.6.32-71.18.1.el6.x86_64
• qemu-kvm version 0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.6.x86_64
• libvirt version 0.8.1-27.el.x86_64
• virt-manager version 0.8.4-8.el6.noarch
The prerequisites to install Dell ULNM on KVM enabled on RHEL6 /Debian 5.0 (Lenny) are:
• KVM hypervisor (on RHEL/Debian) having minimum 5 MB free space.
• Dell ULNM installation packages on RHEL/Debian.
• Libvirt packages on RHEL/Debian.
KVM Configuration Prerequisites
Before installing the Dell ULNM on RHEL/Debian 5.0 (Lenny) where KVM is enabled, the following
configurations must be made:
• Hardware support for virtualization must be enabled on the host. This is an option in the BIOS. It is
possible your BIOS might have virtualization support disabled. Consult your BIOS documentation for
more details.
• For automatic OS boot on startup, you must configure the physical machine to do the same. This
setting is present in BIOS. For further information, see specific technical hardware documentation.
• Virtio Paravirtualized drivers can be installed for better performance (and are compatible with our
solution) but it is optional.
• Optional auto start of guest machine after host boot
Virtual machine monitor (VMM) is an administrative console which monitors and manages guest
machines. To make every virtual machine (VM) start automatically, select the “Autostart VM” check
box as shown in Figure 102. It is located in VMM (Hardware > Boot option) of every VM.
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