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Requirements

Local machine

On the machine where the command-line tool is installed, the following requirements must be met:

Hosts

A host is a physical server that can be either a local or remote machine. Each host must have:

  • installed hypervisor and
  • installed libvirt virtualization API

If the host is a remote machine, a local machine must have:

  • appropriate pasword-less SSH keys to sucessfully connect to the remote hypervisor.

Example - Install KVM

For example, to install the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) hypervisor and libvirt, use yum or apt to install the following packages:

  • qemu
  • qemu-kvm
  • libvirt-clients
  • libvirt-daemon
  • libvirt-daemon-system

After installation, also add user to the kvm and libvirt groups.