Installation guide

Chapter 3.
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KVM compatibility
The KVM hypervisor requires a processor with the Intel-VT or AMD-V virtualization extensions.
Note that this list is not complete. Help us expand it by sending in a bug with anything you get working.
To verify whether your processor supports the virtualization extensions and for information on
enabling the virtualization extensions if they are disabled, refer to Section 24.3, “Verifying virtualization
extensions”.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Servers with the kvm package are limited to 256 processor cores or less.
Supported guests
Operating system Support level
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 x86 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AMD
64 and Intel 64
Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AMD
64 and Intel 64
Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 AMD
64 and Intel 64
Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Fedora 12 x86 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Fedora 12 AMD 64 and Intel 64 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Fedora 13 x86 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Fedora 13 AMD 64 and Intel 64 Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows Server 2003 R2 32-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows Server 2003 R2 64-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows Server 2003 Service
Pack 2 32-Bit
Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows Server 2003 Service
Pack 2 64-Bit
Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows XP 32-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows Vista 32-Bit Supported
Windows Vista 64-Bit Supported
Windows Server 2008 32-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows Server 2008 (and R2)
64-Bit
Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows 7 32-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers
Windows 7 64-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers