Installation Guide
This chapter describes how to install virtualization components in openEuler.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements for installing virtualization components on openEuler are as follows:
- AArch64 processor architecture: ARMv8 or later, supporting virtualization expansion
- x86_64 processor architecture, supporting VT-x
- 2-core CPU
- 4 GB memory
- 16 GB available disk space
Installing Core Virtualization Components
Installation Methods
Prerequisites
- The yum source has been configured. For details, see the openEuler 21.09 Administrator Guide.
- Only the administrator has permission to perform the installation.
Procedure
Install the QEMU component.
# yum install -y qemu
Install the libvirt component.
# yum install -y libvirt
Start the libvirtd service.
# systemctl start libvirtd
NOTE:
The KVM module is integrated in the openEuler kernel and does not need to be installed separately.
Verifying the Installation
Check whether the kernel supports KVM virtualization, that is, check whether the /dev/kvm and /sys/module/kvm files exist. The command and output are as follows:
# ls /dev/kvm /dev/kvm
# ls /sys/module/kvm parameters uevent
If the preceding files exist, the kernel supports KVM virtualization. If the preceding files do not exist, KVM virtualization is not enabled during kernel compilation. In this case, you need to use the Linux kernel that supports KVM virtualization.
Check whether QEMU is successfully installed. If the installation is successful, the QEMU software package information is displayed. The command and output are as follows:
# rpm -qi qemu Name : qemu Epoch : 2 Version : 4.0.1 Release : 10 Architecture: aarch64 Install Date: Wed 24 Jul 2019 04:04:47 PM CST Group : Unspecified Size : 16869484 License : GPLv2 and BSD and MIT and CC-BY Signature : (none) Source RPM : qemu-4.0.0-1.src.rpm Build Date : Wed 24 Jul 2019 04:03:52 PM CST Build Host : localhost Relocations : (not relocatable) URL : http://www.qemu.org Summary : QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer Description : QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes: * Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC), including a processor and various peripherals. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code. * User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. As QEMU requires no host kernel patches to run, it is safe and easy to use.
Check whether libvirt is successfully installed. If the installation is successful, the libvirt software package information is displayed. The command and output are as follows:
# rpm -qi libvirt Name : libvirt Version : 5.5.0 Release : 1 Architecture: aarch64 Install Date: Tue 30 Jul 2019 04:56:21 PM CST Group : Unspecified Size : 0 License : LGPLv2+ Signature : (none) Source RPM : libvirt-5.5.0-1.src.rpm Build Date : Mon 29 Jul 2019 08:14:57 PM CST Build Host : 71e8c1ce149f Relocations : (not relocatable) URL : https://libvirt.org/ Summary : Library providing a simple virtualization API Description : Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.
Check whether the libvirt service is started successfully. If the service is in the Active state, the service is started successfully. You can use the virsh command line tool provided by the libvirt. The command and output are as follows:
# systemctl status libvirtd ● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-08-06 09:36:01 CST; 5h 12min ago Docs: man:libvirtd(8) https://libvirt.org Main PID: 40754 (libvirtd) Tasks: 20 (limit: 32768) Memory: 198.6M CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service ─40754 /usr/sbin/libvirtd