TOPIC 3

Date: 2/5/2014
Server virtualization with KVM
Linux for Engineering and IT Applications


Deployment a CentOS appliance VM.


  • Download a CentOS VM and deploy it 
    
wget http://engshare.rutgers.edu/KVM/CentOS_VM.tgz
tar -xvf CentOS_VM.tgz
cp CentOS_VM/CentOS6.2.xml  /etc/libvirt/qemu
cp CentOS_VM/centos6.2.img  /var/lib/libvirt/images
chown hostadm:hostadm /etc/libvirt/qemu/CentOS6.2.xml
chown hostadm:hostadm /var/lib/libvirt/images/centos6.2.img 
virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/CentOS6.2.xml
    Start the new VM: 
    
virsh start CentOS6.2

  • Login to the new VM console as user root with password unisys: 
    
virsh console CentOS6.2
    On the VM, clear the old MAC address and reboot: 
    
cp /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
reboot
    After rebooting, the VM should be able to get the network settings.

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