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-====== Configure A Physical Machine To Host Virtual Guests ======
-**General Information**
-Yum groups can save you time, as long as you have access to a repo that has the groups defined. **This may NOT be the case on an exam**.
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-===== Installing and Starting KVM =====
-Install packages
-  * CLI packages<code bash>yum install virt-install qemu-kvm qemu-img</code>
-    * qemu is the layer that allows for virtualization to work with KVM
-    * KVM is built into the kernel and allows virtualization support
-  * GUI packages<code bash>yum install virt-manager</code>
-    * **virt-manager** is only needed if you want the GUI Virtual Machine Manager application.
-  * CLI and GUI packages group<code bash>yum groupinstall "Virtualization Client"</code>
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-Libvirt packages
-<code bash>
-yum install libvirt libvirt-client libvirt-python
-OR
-yum groupinstall "Virtualization Platform"
-</code>
-  * libvirt packages allow interacting with virtual guests/managing virtual machines
-\\
-Enable/Start libvirt
-<code bash>
-systemctl enable libvirtd
-systemctl start libvirtd
-</code>
-\\
-Two ways to manage VMs
-  * virt-manager => GUI
-  * virsh => command line
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