This tutorial describes how to install the KVM hypervisor and libvirt virtualization library on Linux CentOS 6.2. At the end of this guide you will have a CentOS box (name it host) with the following capabilities:virtualization capacity: chance for multiple guests (Linux/Windows) running and sharing the host’s hardware;bridge network configuration: you’ll be able to directly access to the guests as if they were physical machines on the same LAN and viceversa;visual management: using virt-manager (I use Ubuntu 11.10 in this howto) you will be able to remotely admin the virtual machines on the CentOS host.
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