1.2. Subscriptions
To install the Red Hat Virtualization Manager and hosts, your systems must be registered with the Content Delivery Network using Red Hat Subscription Management. This section outlines the subscriptions and repositories required to set up a Red Hat Virtualization environment.
Red Hat is transitioning the RHN-hosted interface into the Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) interfaces by July 31, 2017. If your current systems are registered to RHN Classic, see Migrating from RHN Classic to Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) for Red Hat Virtualization for instructions on how to migrate your systems to RHSM.
1.2.1. Required Subscriptions and Repositories
The packages provided in the following repositories are required to install and configure a functioning Red Hat Virtualization environment. When one of these repositories is required to install a package, the steps required to enable the repository are provided in the appropriate location in the Installation Guide or Self-Hosted Engine Guide.
Table 1.1. Red Hat Virtualization Manager
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| Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server. |
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| Provides the virtio-win package, which provides the Windows VirtIO drivers for use in virtual machines. |
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| Provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. |
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| Provides dependencies for the the Red Hat Virtualization Manager that are common to all Red Hat Virtualization 4 releases. |
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| Provides Red Hat Ansible Engine. |
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| Provides the supported release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on which the Manager runs. |
Table 1.2. Red Hat Virtualization Host
| Subscription Pool | Repository Name | Repository Label | Details |
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Table 1.3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Hosts
| Subscription Pool | Repository Name | Repository Label | Details |
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| Provides the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server. |
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| Provides the QEMU and KVM packages required for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 servers as virtualization hosts. |
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| Provides Red Hat Ansible Engine. |
1.2.2. Optional Subscriptions and Repositories
The packages provided in the following repositories are not required to install and configure a functioning Red Hat Virtualization environment. However, they are required to install packages that provide supporting functionality on virtual machines and client systems such as virtual machine resource monitoring. When one of these repositories is required to install a package, the steps required to enable the repository are provided in the appropriate location in the Installation Guide or Self-Hosted Engine Guide.
Table 1.4. Optional Subscriptions and Repositories
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| Provides packages used to build your own version of the Red Hat Virtualization Host image. |
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