Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization guest agents and drivers on virtual machines provides optimized performance and extra features.
- Installing the agents and drivers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests
- All of the drivers are included in the base channel for RHN registered Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines. They can be installed using the
yum install rhevm-guest-agentcommand.Your guest must be subscribed to theRed Hat Enterprise Virt Agentchannel to install the agents.In Red Hat Enterprise Enterprise Linux 5, this channel is labelledrhel-x86_64-rhev-agent-5-server. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the channel is labelledrhel-x86_64-rhev-agent-6-server. - Installing the agents and drivers on Windows guests
- The agents and drivers are installed on Windows virtual machines using the
rhev-tools-setup.isodisk image. The guest tools ISO is distributed using the Red Hat Network asrhev-guest-tools-iso.rpm, an RPM file installed on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.After installing the Manager, the guest tools ISO can be found at/usr/share/rhev-guest-tools-iso/rhev-tools-setup.iso. When setting up the Manager, if you have created a local storage share for an ISO storage domain, the ISO file is automatically copied to the ISO storage domain. In this case the ISO image is automatically attached to Windows guests when they are created. Otherwise, the ISO must be manually attached to Windows guests for the tools and agents to be installed.Updated versions of the ISO file must be manually attached to running Windows virtual machines to install updated versions of the tools and drivers. If the APT service is enabled on virtual machines, the updated ISO files will be automatically attached.
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