To prepare a KVM host to be a fabric node, you must install some third-party packages.

Prerequisites

  • (RHEL and CentOS Linux) Before you install the third-party packages, run the following commands to install the virtualization packages. 
    yum groupinstall “Virtualization Hypervisor”
yum groupinstall “Virtualization Client”
yum groupinstall "Virtualization Platform"
yum groupinstall "Virtualization Tools"

    If you are not able to install the packages, you can manually install them by running yum install glibc.i686 nspr command on a new installation.

  • (Ubuntu) Before you install the third-party packages, run the following commands to install the virtualization packages. 
    apt install -y \
qemu-kvm \
libvirt-bin \
virtinst \
virt-manager \
virt-viewer \
ubuntu-vm-builder \
bridge-utils
  • (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) Before you install the third-party packages, run the following commands to install the virtualization packages. 
    libcap-progs

Procedure

  • On Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, run apt-get install <package_name> to install the following third-party packages manually. 
    traceroute
python-mako
python-simplejson
python-unittest2
python-yaml
python-netaddr
python-netifaces
dkms
libc6-dev
libelf-dev
  • On RHEL and CentOS Linux, run yum install <package_name> to install the third-party packages manually.
    If you manually prepare the host that is already registered to RHEL or CentOS, you do not need to install third-party packages on the host.
    RHEL 7.7, 7.6 CentOS Linux 7.6 
    wget
PyYAML
libunwind
python-gevent
python-mako
python-netaddr
python-netifaces
redhat-lsb-core
tcpdump
    		 
    wget
PyYAML
libunwind
python-gevent
python-mako
python-netaddr
python-netifaces
redhat-lsb-core
tcpdump
  • On SUSE, run zypper install <package_name> to install the third-party packages manually.
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0 
    python-simplejson
python-PyYAML
python-netaddr
python-netifaces
lsb-release
libcap-progs