Systems

Adding Passthrough Physical Disk in KVM Guests

I found myself needing to add a physical disk thats installed on a KVM host on to one of its guests. Although this is not always advised, it can be helpful in data recovery scenarios. Find which disk you want to add by using ‘fdisk -l’, looking at the listed partitions. Second, you can make […]

Systems

Installing and Working With CentOS 7 x64 and KVM

Section A: Installing KVM on Centos 7 x64 Minimal Checking for Virtualization Support Just to be clear, we’ll need to check for virtualization support; that it is enabled in the BIOS and also enabled on kernel. To check if the kernel has virtualization support, run this command: egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ –color=always /proc/cpuinfo If the device supports […]