1.2. Installing KVM packages on an existing Fedora system

The section describes the steps for installing the KVM hypervisor on a working Fedora 12 or newer.

Installing the KVM hypervisor with `yum`

To use virtualization on Fedora you require the kvm package. The kvm package contains the KVM kernel module providing the KVM hypervisor on the default Linux kernel.

To install the kvm package, run:

# yum install kvm

Now, install additional virtualization management packages.

Recommended virtualization packages:

python-virtinst: Provides the virt-install command for creating virtual machines.
libvirt: libvirt is an API library for interacting with hypervisors. libvirt uses the xm virtualization framework and the virsh command line tool to manage and control virtual machines.
libvirt-python: The libvirt-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by the libvirt API.
virt-manager: virt-manager, also known as Virtual Machine Manager, provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines. It uses libvirt library as the management API.

Install the other recommended virtualization packages:

# yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst

1.2. Installing KVM packages on an existing Fedora system

Installing the KVM hypervisor with yum

Recommended virtualization packages:

Installing the KVM hypervisor with `yum`