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Summary
KVM with RHV-H or RHEL - details here
Details
With RHV 3.5 virtualization hosts must run version 6.5, or later (of either): Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.
RHV is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and the oVirt open virtualization management platform (project started at Red Hat and released to the open source community). KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module. The kernel component of KVM is included in mainline Linux, as of 2.6.20.
RHV hosts can be either based on full Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based systems with KVM enabled or purpose built RHV-H (hypervisor) hosts. RHV-H is a bare metal, image-based, small-footprint (<250MB) hypervisor with minimized security footprint also referred to as Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor.
RHV is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and the oVirt open virtualization management platform (project started at Red Hat and released to the open source community). KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module. The kernel component of KVM is included in mainline Linux, as of 2.6.20.
RHV hosts can be either based on full Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based systems with KVM enabled or purpose built RHV-H (hypervisor) hosts. RHV-H is a bare metal, image-based, small-footprint (<250MB) hypervisor with minimized security footprint also referred to as Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor.
