Trying to install Subscription Manager and virt-who on CentOS 6.4

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I have some RHEL VM's running on CentOS hosts, and I'm having trouble finding a virt-who package to install so I can add subscriptions to the RHEL VM's. Can anyone point me to some documentation or a repo?

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This package "virt-who" is there in the base repo or server ISO image. How to enable/disable a repository using Red Hat Subscription Manager?

Thank you!

"virt-who" and "subscription-manager" are not included in CentOS. The virt-who package was available for CentOS 6.4 but it will not be useful without subscription-manager. You can find virt-who in their vault repo.

Thanks for your input Akemi.

Thank you! I managed to track down subscription-manager, but I was having trouble locating virt-who.

I quite don't understand your question, just boot the RHEL virtual machines and add subscriptions with subscription-manager from within the running virtual system. There is not any difference to a system which is installed on bare metal at all, when it comes to that practice. :)

According to Red Hat support, the subscriptions that we have (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters, Premium) are meant to be installed on the servers running the RHEL VM's. Once subscriptions are applied on those servers, subscription-manager and virt-who will handle creating additional subscriptions for any RHEL machines being hosted on that server. Unfortunately, all those RHEL machines are running on CentOS servers, which is complicating things a little bit. :(

Hi ! :) Thanks for clarification. Suggestion : Why not access those VMs by logging in from the CentOS server using ssh and then add the subscriptions ? Of course I'm not sure if this would be a possible workaround ...

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