RHCSA lab question.

HWDPlinux · 07-04-2014, 02:30 PM

Quick question about setting up the lab. If I understand correctly from all the other posts I've read, the proper way to practice is to install something like CentOS on a physical machine and then set up KVM and continue. I assume using VirtualBox on Ubuntu is the wrong way. Thx guys.

btmiller · 07-05-2014, 10:38 AM

I don't see why using VirtualBox in Ubuntu would be wrong at all, so long as you're installing CentOS or another RHEL-derived distro on the VMs. The only thing you're missing out on will be practice setting up KVM in a RHEL-like environment, which I think is one of the exam objectives (not sure how important it is). But for setting up other RHEL-like VMs to practice on, I don't see any issues with it.

HWDPlinux · 07-06-2014, 07:17 PM

Thanks for the reply! I should have asked this initially, so I apologize in advance. I also need to know if I need to start with a Minimal-install CentOS?

custangro · 07-06-2014, 09:48 PM

It's not "wrong" ...but...it's a good idea to get used to using KVM on RHEL/CentOS

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