Installation guide

Virtual machines require sufficient physical memory (RAM) to run efficiently and effectively.
Red Hat supports a minimum of 512MB of RAM for a virtual machine. Red Hat recommends at
least 1024MB of RAM for each logical core.
Assign sufficient virtual CPUs for the virtual machine. If the virtual machine runs a
multithreaded application, assign the number of virtual CPUs the guest virtual machine will
require to run efficiently.
You cannot assign more virtual CPUs than there are physical processors (or hyper-threads)
available on the host system. The number of virtual CPUs available is noted in the Up to X
avai l abl e field.
Fig u re 7.6 . T h e n ew VM win d o w - St ep 3
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6. St orag e
Enable and assign storage for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest virtual machine. Assign
at least 5GB for a desktop installation or at least 1GB for a minimal installation.
Red Hat Ent erp rise Linux 6 Virt ualiz at ion Host Configurat ion and G uest Inst allat ion G uide
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