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6.9. Registering Guest Instances
Register a virtual system the same as a physical system.
The
virt-who service must be running on the virtual host or on a hypervisor in the environment (for VMware). This ensures that the virt-who service maps the guest to a physical host, so the system is registered as a virtual system. Otherwise, the virtual instance is treated as a physical instance.
- Configure Subscription Manager on the virtual system to use the Satellite service and the CA certificate.
# rpm -Uvh \ http://satellite.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
- Register the system to the same organization as its host.
# subscription-manager register --username=admin --password=secret --org=organization_label --auto-attach
The organization ID is available in the Portal entry for the organization. If another system is already registered to that organization, then get the organization ID by using the following command:# subscription-manager orgs
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