Installing MX-ONE KVM, SuSE Linux

To install MX-ONE on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) on the SuSE Linux platform, follow these steps:

1. Download the MX-ONE ISO image (Recovery image) from the MX-ONE repository.
2. Make a bootable USB and load it with the Recovery image to install OS with KVM capability.
3. Run the USB and select option 3 (KVM install).
4. Install the KVM image and system is restored with SuSE Linux installed.
   
   
   
5. Enter the root login credentials.
6. Using the Yast utility, enter IP address, Gateway, DNS and subnet Mask to the system. For more information see, https://www.suse.com/documentation/sled11/book_sle_admin/index.html?page=/documentation/sled11/book_sle_admin/data/sec_basicnet_yast.html.
   
   
   
7. Using the configured IP address login to the terminal using putty.
8. For the installation of KVM over SuSE download the. qcow2 and .xml files from the package repository.
9. Check if libvirtd is running or not, else start it: sudo systemctl status libvirtd

   libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)   Active: active (running) since Mon 2019-04-08 14:38:40 CEST; 22h ago     Docs: man:libvirtd(8)           https://libvirt.org Main PID: 21036 (libvirtd)    Tasks: 18 (limit: 32768)   CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service           ??21036 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -listen

10. Create a virtual machine, enter virt-clone --original-xml Virtual_Image-MX-ONE_7.0.sp0.hf2.rc5.xml --name <your system name> --file /local/images/<your system name>.gcow2

    For example,virt-clone --original-xml Virtual_Image-MX-ONE_7.1.sp0.hf0.rc26.xml --name MX-ONE --file /local/MX-ONE.qcow2

    Note: Keep the qcow2 and xml under the local folder. Edit (vi) the xml file and change the default path from /kvm/images to /local where you have saved the image file.
11. When the kvm image installation is complete, create a network bridge and map it to the eth0 that you are using so that KVM can access it.
12. To add a new network bridge device on VM Host Server with brctl, follow these steps:
    1. Log in as root on the VM Host Server where you want to create a new network bridge.
    2. Choose a name for the new bridge-VIRBR_TEST in our example- and run root # brctl addbr VIRBR_TEST.
    3. Check if the bridge was created on VM Host Server root # brctl show

       	bridge name     bridge id           STP enabled     interfaces	br0             8000.e06995ec09e8   no              eth0	virbr0          8000.525400b37ec9   yes             virbr0-nic	virbr_test      8000.000000000000   no

       Note: virbr_test is listed, but not associated with any physical network interface
    4. Add a network interface to the bridge using root # brctl addif VIRBR_TEST eth1 command.
       Note: Network interface must not be already in use. This is because you can only enslave a network interface that is not yet used by other network bridge.
    5. Optionally, enable STP using root # brctl stp VIRBR_TEST on command.

       For more information, see https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_virt/data/libvirt_networks_bridged.html.

       brctl showbridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfacesbr0             8000.28b9d9e09f41       no              eth0                                                           vnet0

13. To start your virtual machine, install Mobaxterm (GUI or X server support). See https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html
14. Run KVM machine and run virt-manager on the command line.
    
    
    
    This gives you the virtual manager access through which you, start, stop, or change the MX-ONE deployed KVM and install it.
    
    
    
    
    
    
15. Executables are stored in /usr/libexe.