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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

by Neil Smyth
June 2019
Beginner to intermediate
266 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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20. Installing KVM Virtualization on RHEL 8

Prior to RHEL 6 two virtualization platforms were provided with RHEL in the form of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Xen. With the release of RHEL 6, support for Xen was removed leaving KVM as the only bundled virtualization option supplied with RHEL 8. In addition to KVM, third party solutions are available in the form of products such as VMware and Oracle VirtualBox. Since KVM is supplied with RHEL 8, however, this is the virtualization solution that will be covered in this and subsequent chapters.

Before plunging into installing and running KVM it is worth taking a little time to talk about how it fits into the various types of virtualization outlined in the previous chapter.

20.1 An Overview ...

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ISBN: 9781800201200