On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:39:23PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote: > > On 01/28/11 - 10:44:37PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 05:49:58PM +0000, Rhonda Kern wrote: > > > > I am trying to create a virtual machine on a 64 bit RHEL 6 machine. > > > > There are 4 processors on the host and 24G of RAM. I will be > > > > running an old version of redhat 7.3 as the guest o/s. > > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > Unfortunately this isn't going to work. KVM does not emulate some > > > peculiarities of the hardware that old RHL relies on. I've tried it > > > in the past .. it's a no go. > > > > Actually, this isn't true. I've recently installed RHL 7.3 under KVM on my > > AMD box (running F-13). Of course, it isn't something that the KVM > > developers > > typically spend a lot of time on, but in general it has worked for me. > > I had to try this, and (of course) Chris is correct that RHL 7.3 does > install on Fedora 14 in qemu-kvm.
Chris did you have any problems during the install when swapping virtual CDs over: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674530 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
