Installation guide

i686-PAE Supported
i686-SMP Supported (Intel) Supported
i686-HUGEMEM Supported (Intel) Supported
x86_64 Supported (AMD) Supported Supported
x86_64-SMP Supported (AMD) Supported
x86_64-LARGESMP Supported
Itanium (IA64) Supported
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Important
The host system requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 or newer.
Note
Write the output of the command below down or remember it. This is the value that determines
which packages and modules you need to download.
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n'
kernel
Your output should appear similar to this:
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.i686
The name of the kernel is PAE (an abbreviation of Physical Address Extensions), kernel
version is 2.6.18, the release is 53.1.4.el5 and the architecture is i686. The kernel RPM should
always be in the format kern el- name- versio n - release.arch .rp m.
Imp o rt ant Rest rict io n s
Para-virtualized device drivers can be installed after successfully installing a guest operating
system. You will need a functioning host and guest before you can install these drivers.
Note
G R UB cannot presently access para-virtualized block devices. Therefore, a guest can not be
booted from a device that uses the para-virtualized block device drivers: specifically, the disk
that contains the Master Boot Record (MBR), a disk containing a boot loader (GRUB), or a disk
that contains the kernel initrd images. Any disk which contains the /boot directory or
partition cannot use the para-virtualized block device drivers.
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