6.5. Using virt-who with Hyper-V

  1. To make the virt-who connection to Hyper-V work, enable Windows Remote Management and either HTTP or HTTPS listener must be running. On the Hyper-V server: 
    # winrm quickconfig
  2. The firewall must allow remote administration. On the Hyper-V server: 
    # netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Administration" new enable=yes
  3. If you are using HTTP, enable the unencrypted connection. On the Hyper-V server: 
    # winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}
  4. Only Basic and NTLM authentication methods are supported. To verify that either Basic or Negotiate is enabled (True): 
    # winrm get winrm/config/service/auth
  5. On the Red Hat server, log in as root. Install the virt-who package: 
    # yum install virt-who
  6. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file and set the parameters as follows: 
    VIRTWHO_BACKGROUND=1
VIRTWHO_DEBUG=1
VIRTWHO_ONE_SHOT=0
VIRTWHO_INTERVAL=0
VIRTWHO_SATELLITE6=1
VIRTWHO_HYPERV=1
VIRTWHO_HYPERV_OWNER=Satellite_Organization
VIRTWHO_HYPERV_ENV=Library
VIRTWHO_HYPERV_SERVER=IP or FQDN
VIRTWHO_HYPERV_USERNAME=Your_User_Name (you must use your Hyper-V administrator account)
VIRTWHO_HYPERV_PASSWORD=Your_Password
    With the VIRTWHO_SATELLITE6 parameter enabled, virt-who sends reports to Red Hat Satellite.
  7. Start and enable the virt-who service:
    • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: 
      # service virt-who start
# chkconfig virt-who on
    • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: 
      # systemctl start virt-who
# systemctl enable virt-who
  8. Optional: To configure the virt-who service to use a Windows domain account, edit your username with a double backslash in the virt-who configuration file.
    For example: 
    VIRTWHO_HYPERV_USERNAME="MYDOMAIN\\user"