Installation guide

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c. Net wo rk b o o t ( PXE)
PXE installation does not have an additional step.
9. St o rag e set u p
The Storage window displays. Choose a disk partition, LUN or create a file-based image for
the guest storage.
All image files are stored in the /var/lib/libvirt/images/ directory by default. In the
default configuration, other directory locations for file-based images are prohibited by
SELinux. If you use a different directory you must label the new directory according to
SELinux policy. See Section 19.2, “SELinux and virtualization” for details.
Your guest storage image should be larger than the size of the installation, any additional
packages and applications, and the size of the guests swap file. The installation process will
choose the size of the guest's swap based on size of the RAM allocated to the guest.
Allocate extra space if the guest needs additional space for applications or other data. For
example, web servers require additional space for log files.
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