Install Third-Party Packages on a KVM Host

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
  python3
  dkms
  libc6-dev
  libelf-dev
  ifupdown
  python3-netifaces

• On Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, run apt-get install <package_name> to install the following third-party packages manually.

  traceroute
  python3-mako
  python3-simplejson
  python3-unittest2
  python3-yaml
  python3-netaddr
  python3-openssl
  python3
  dkms
  libc6-dev
  libelf-dev
  ifupdown
  python3-netifaces

• 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, RHEL 7.9 and CentOS 7.7	RHEL 8.2 and CentOS 8.2
  wget PyYAML python-mako python-netaddr python3 redhat-lsb-core tcpdump python-netifaces	wget python36 python3-pyyaml python3-mako python3-netaddr python3-pyOpenSSL redhat-lsb-core tcpdump network-scripts python3-netifaces

• 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 python3 lsb-release libcap-progs