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Part I. Installation

Virtualization installation topics

These chapters describe setting up the host and installing virtualized guests with Fedora. It is recommended to read these chapters carefully to ensure successful installation of virtualized guest operating systems.

Table of Contents

1. Installing the virtualization packages
1.1. Installing KVM with a new Fedora installation
1.2. Installing KVM packages on an existing Fedora system
2. Virtualized guest installation overview
2.1. Creating guests with virt-install
2.2. Creating guests with virt-manager
2.3. Installing guests with PXE
3. Guest operating system installation procedures
3.1. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as a para-virtualized guest
3.2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a fully virtualized guest
3.3. Installing Windows XP as a fully virtualized guest
3.4. Installing Windows Server 2003 as a fully virtualized guest
3.5. Installing Windows Server 2008 as a fully virtualized guest