Installation guide

Chapter 7. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a virtualized guest

Figure 7.6. The Create a new virtual machine window - Step 3

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6. Storage

Enable and assign storage for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest. Assign at least 5GB for a

desktop installation or at least 1GB for a minimal installation.

Migration

Live and offline migrations require guests to be installed on shared network storage. For

information on setting up shared storage for guests refer to Part V, “Virtualization storage

topics”.

a. With the default local storage

Select the Create a disk image on the computer's hard drive radio button to create a

file-based image in the default storage pool, the /var/lib/libvirt/images/ directory.

Enter the size of the disk image to be created. If the Allocate entire disk now check box is

selected, a disk image of the size specified will be created immediately. If not, the disk image

will grow as it becomes filled.