⁠7.2. Obtaining the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor Disk Image

Before you can set up a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, you must download the packages containing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor disk image and tools for writing that disk image to USB storage devices or preparing that disk image for deployment via PXE.
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Procedure 7.1. Obtaining the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 6 Disk Image and Tools

Note

For Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 7 installation instructions, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/1168703
  1. Enable the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (v.6 x86_64) repository. With Subscription Manager, attach a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization entitlement and run the following command: 
    # subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-6-server-rhevh-rpms
  2. Install the rhev-hypervisor6 package. Alternatively, you can download the ISO file from the Customer Portal. 
    # yum install rhev-hypervisor6
  3. Install the livecd-tools package: 
    # yum install livecd-tools

Note

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and later allows more than one version of the ISO image to be installed at one time. As such, /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/rhev-hypervisor.iso is now a symbolic link to a uniquely-named version of the Hypervisor ISO image, such as /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/rhev-hypervisor-6.4-20130321.0.el6ev.iso. Different versions of the image can now be installed alongside each other, allowing administrators to run and maintain a cluster on a previous version of the Hypervisor while upgrading another cluster for testing. Additionally, the symbolic link /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/rhevh-latest-6.iso is created. This links also targets the most recently installed version of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ISO image.