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authorSandra McCann <scmccann2000@gmail.com>2015-04-08 09:28:01 -0400
committerSandra McCann <scmccann2000@gmail.com>2015-04-08 09:28:01 -0400
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Updated Virtualization group package description and removed groups that don't exist.
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<para>
<screen># dnf group install Virtualization </screen>
</para>
-<para>You can optionally install other virtualization group packages, based on your needs. The following table describes the virtualization package groups and what they provide.
- </para><!--edit for BZ#831483- qemu-img is part of Virtualization package)-->
- <note><para>Note that the <command>qemu-img</command> package is <!--not distributed in any of the following groups, but is--> installed as a dependency of the <literal>Virtualization</literal> package group if it is not already installed on the system.</para></note>
- <table frame='all'><title>Virtualization Package Groups</title>
- <tgroup cols='4' align='left' colsep='4' rowsep='4'>
- <colspec colname='c1' />
- <colspec colnum='2' colname='c2' />
- <colspec colnum='3' colname='c3' />
- <colspec colnum='4' colname='c4' />
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry namest="c1" nameend="c1" align="left">Package Group</entry>
- <entry namest="c2" nameend="c2" align="left">Description</entry>
- <entry namest="c3" nameend="c3" align="left">Mandatory Packages</entry>
- <entry namest="c4" nameend="c4" align="left">Optional Packages</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Virtualization</entry>
- <entry>Provides an environment for hosting virtual machines</entry>
- <entry>qemu-kvm</entry>
- <entry>qemu-guest-agent, qemu-kvm-tools</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Virtualization Client</entry>
- <entry>Clients for installing and managing virtualization instances</entry>
- <entry>python-virtinst, virt-manager, virt-viewer</entry>
- <entry>virt-top</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Virtualization Platform</entry>
- <entry>Provides an interface for accessing and controlling virtual machines and containers</entry>
- <entry>libvirt, libvirt-client, virt-who, virt-what</entry>
- <entry>fence-virtd-libvirt, fence-virtd-multicast, fence-virtd-serial, libvirt-cim, libvirt-java, libvirt-qmf, libvirt-snmp, perl-Sys-Virt</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Virtualization Tools</entry>
- <entry>Tools for offline virtual image management</entry>
- <entry>libguestfs</entry>
- <entry>libguestfs-java, libguestfs-tools, virt-v2v</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- <para>To install a package group, run the <command>dnf group install &lt;groupname&gt;</command> command. For instance, to install the <emphasis role="bold">Virtualization Tools</emphasis> package group, run the <command>dnf group install "Virtualization Tools"</command> command.</para>
- <para>
+<para>
+ <note><para>Note that the <command>qemu-img</command> package is <!--not distributed in any of the following groups, but is--> installed as a dependency of the <literal>Virtualization</literal> package group if it is not already installed on the system.</para></note>
+ The following describes the Virtualization package:
+ <screen>$ dnf group info "Virtualization"
+
+Group: Virtualization
+ Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment.
+ Mandatory Packages:
+ virt-install
+ Default Packages:
+ libvirt-daemon-config-network
+ libvirt-daemon-kvm
+ qemu-kvm
+ virt-manager
+ virt-viewer
+ Optional Packages:
+ guestfs-browser
+ libguestfs-tools
+ python-libguestfs
+ virt-top
+ </screen>
+</para>
+ <para>
To use virtualization on Fedora you require at least the <filename>qemu-kvm</filename> and <filename>qemu-img</filename> packages. These packages provide the user-level KVM emulator and disk image manager on the host Fedora system.
</para>
<para>