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For class activity 1.2, you are all correct and KVM is an opensource hypervisor built for Linux OS. It's part of the module we will be covering. I will take my time to really explain this module because being a virtualization Engineer is hot cake too. Knowing KVM is knowing one out of the virtualization technology most companies use.

The most common virtualization technology Enterprises uses are Vmware (ESXI, Vsphere, etc) followed by HyperV, then KVM.

Imagine you knowing KVM, hyperV and Vmware very well. . You may become one of the most sort after virtualization engineer.

Always remember, choose a niche & "one at a time". (This is what I mean, I am a Linux and Azure Administrator), that's my niche and I must know it 100% but then, I still know some other stuff too. some 80%, some 50%, some 30%, etc.

For the ones who will be connecting to the server on cloud, in fact, (this will be for everybody) because this is where I get to see your class activities and assess what you have done.

Moving forward,

Get the putty application, I will be dropping the public IP address here. I have started creating user accounts for everyone using your registered names on nairaland, so everyone logs in with their user account.

To get your credentials, send an email to freetraining@bolgtom.com, please specify your registered name on nairaland. For example, saxwizard. I hope he gets to teach us sax someday. Say Yeah if you all agree with me and don't bother to say Nay if you don't. . your credentials will be forwarded

Suggestions, questions, advises, contributions are welcomed as usual

https://tekneed.com/2019/12/05/module-1-2-lab-setup-and-virtual-machine-creation/

Cheers!!!

NEXT MODULE: LINUX FILESYSTEM STRUCTURE

4. Input the command “ip a” as shown below, get the IP, in my case 10.0.2.15 and input it in the putty application, click on open as mentioned above and you are IN.

3. After clicking on terminal, you will have the output below

For the ones who have done the Lab setup, follow the Steps below to get your IP

1. Login to your sever as mentioned above
2. click on “Activities” at the top left corner of the console as shown below, hover to the fifth object, it’s named terminal, click on it.

CONNECTING TO A LINUX SERVER USING SSH

Briefly, SSH means secure shell, it allows a remote connection to a server securely. We will learn more when we get to the module.
To connect to a server via SSH, you will need an SSH application like Putty, Bitvise, etc. Personally, I use more of putty and bitvise.
You can download putty via this link if you don’t have it yet.
https://www.putty.org/ (About 3.5mb)

After the download, launch the application, you will have the image below. Input your IP in the IP address space, click on open and you are IN.

I believe the steps are clear and well detailed. I will be making a video soon, you can also watch and easily follow through.

22. Whatever pops up after, click on Next, next next. More so, close any box that appears till you see something like the image below for people using version 8. The color for version 7 is blue.

21. Clicking on Finish configuration will give you the image below, click on “not listed”, enter root as a username and your password.

20. Clicking on reboot in the image above will give you the image below, click on “License Information” accept the license, click done and click on finish configuration.

19. Wait for installation to complete, when it’s completed as shown in the image below, at the top corner of your hypervisor, click on “device”, click on “optical drive”, click on “remove disk from virtual drive” before you click on reboot.

16. Click on Begin Installation and boom!!! Your installation starts.

17. Clicking on Begin installation will give you the image below.

18. Looking at the image above, you will notice that the root password is not set and no other user will be created as well. Click on the “root password” part and set your password. Also click on the “User creation part”, create a user and set a password and click on “Done”. You will get the image below saying “root password is set” and “user in my own case, moyinoluwa will be created”.

15. Click on “Network & Host…..part” in the image above to configure the network and host name, you will get the image below. (A). Turn on the Ethernet card like I did in the image below. (B). give a host name also like I did below and click on done at the left top corner.

14. You will see from the image below that the RED color as compared with step 12 is gone.

13. Click on the “installation destination” part as it is in the above image, it will take you to the below image, make sure that “Local Standard Disks” box as shown below is marked and turned blue. Also ensure the “Storage configuration” is ticked as Automatic as shown in the image.

12. Clicking on continue will give you the image below. (A). Make sure that the “Software selection” part is set to Server with GUI for now as shown below, if not, click on it and set it to be. (B). Make sure the “installation destination” part is set to automatic for now. In the image below, it’s set to automatic but still showing in RED.

11. Pressing the enter key above will give you the image below, leave it at English, but if you speak Arabic, French or Yoruba, Look for it and select it. You are on your own.

click on continue

10. Clicking on start in the image above will give you image below, use your arrow keys and point to “install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.7, 8.0, 8.1” as the case may be, press the enter key

NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

During the installation, you may discover that whenever you do a clicking in your hypervisor, you may not be able to hover your mouse outside the hypervisor, to gain control of your mouse again, click the “Ctrl” key.

9. Clicking on the start button in the image above will give you the image below, click on the folder Icon and pick the ISO image you downloaded., then click on start .

8. Clicking create above will give you the below image, click on the start button

7. Clicking on next above will give you the image below, set your hard disk size to be 20GB as shown in the image below and click create

6. Clicking on next above will give you the image below, make it fixed size for now and click on next

5. Clicking on create above will give you the image below, leave it at VDI for now and click on next.

4. Clicking on next above will give you the below image, click on “create a virtual hard disk now” as shown in the image below and click on create.

tomisinuno:
2. From the image above, that is, step 8, click on the new button, you will get a box like this below, give any VM name you like, make type Linux and version 64-bit, click on next

3. clicking on next above will give you the below image, give your VM memory size of at least 2GB as shown and click next

saxwizard:
i registered too but could not download.

i downloaded from a third party website... which am i to install
Thank you

You can install 8.1 DVD.......

Always try to download directly from OEM nextime. 3rd party can be risky.

yemibayo:
Thanks boss. I have registered. Which one of the below am i dowloading

Red hat enterprise Linux binary DVD, Version 7 or 8

Check by the left side where there is product, click on red hat enterprise Linux. It has to be a binary DVD. I made a screen shot of what it should be on step 1 in creating VM.

yemibayo:
Boss, I have not been able to download the linux iso image using the link. See below.

You will need to register. It's free, login and you will be able to download it.

Royalsleek22:
They were all developed from linux.

correct

Narnah:
They operate on Linus kernel

I guess you meant they both operate on Linux kernel. that's correct

peemeeks:
The common ties between them is that they are built using Unix.

They both run on Command Line Interface (CLI)
They are Open source - free to use although Red Hat slightly vary in this regard.

The difference between both is that Ubuntu is designed for personal use while RedHat tilt towards enterprise (Commercial) usage.

I try small abi

Yeah, you tried. However,there is Ubuntu Server as well. The Ubuntu desktop may be used personally.