In my June 2014 RHEV Upgrade Saga article, I discussed how to build a KVM client for your own use. The method used the Q35 (2009) chipset features that were dropped from RHEL 7 KVM as of version 7.1. This has caused quite a few issues with my deployment of a KVM client system. However, …
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RHEV Upgrade Saga: RHEL 7 Licensing and RHEV Support
While continuing on my way toward getting a fully running RHEV set up on RHEL 7, I find myself facing two new problems. Neither has a simple solution. The first is the lack of support in RHEV for RHEL 7 as a hypervisor. The second concerns a change in Red Hat’s handling of virtualization licenses. …
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RHEV Upgrade Saga: Installing Open vSwitch on RHEL 7
I was finally going to install RHEV on my brand-new system running RHEL 7 RC with KVM. However, it has a dependency on DNS. Which was fine, but my DNS server was on another network, not the private network used by KVM with the standard virtual bridge. To fix this, I chose to move my …
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RHEV Upgrade Saga: KVM Client
Citrix has XenClient, but there is no equivalent for Hyper-V, vSphere, or KVM. Here are the steps to build a KVM client for your own use. Granted, this could be faked by using a graphical console on your KVM server as well as Hyper-V, but that defeats the purpose of keeping the console of the …
RHEV upgrade saga: Creating VMs on Open vSwitch
Previously we create our network by integrating Open vSwitch into RHEL KVM. Now we need to create some virtual machines to run the workloads required. Read More
RHEV upgrade saga: RHEL KVM and the Open vSwitch
A customer recently switched from VMware Server to KVM, but we wanted better networking, which required us to install and operate the Open vSwitch. Read more