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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 for VM installs, hardware emulation, imaging
-  * CLI packages<code bash>yum install virt-install qemu-kvm qemu-img</code>
-    * virt-install: VM creation
-    * qemu-kvm: Provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor
-    * qemu-img: Disk image utility
-  * GUI packages<code bash>yum install virt-manager</code>
-    * **virt-manager** is only needed if you want the GUI Virtual Machine Manager application to create/control VMs.
-  * CLI and GUI packages group<code bash>yum groupinstall "Virtualization Client"</code>
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-Management 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
-    * libvirt: Interact with virtualization via an API
-    * libvirt-client: Client binaries to access virtualization (provides virsh CLI VM management utility)
-    * libvirt-python: Module for Python programs to access virtualization
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-Enable/Start libvirtd - Daemon required to manage virtualization
-<code bash>
-systemctl enable libvirtd
-systemctl start libvirtd
-</code>
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-Two ways to manage VMs
-  * virt-manager => GUI
-  * virsh => command line
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