Installing Softaculous Virtualizor for KVM

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor. It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 2.6.20, which was released on February 5, 2007. KVM requires a processor with hardware virtualization extension.

Requirements

• CentOS 5.x / 6.x / 7.x or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x / 6.x or Scientific Linux 5.x / 6.x or Ubuntu 12.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64)
• yum / apt-get
• Storage to create the VPS (DomUs) disks

Notes :-

• KVM module does not support 32 bit operating system. Please install a 64 bit OS if you want to install KVM.
• KVM module requires VT enabled from the BIOS to be loaded.
• We strongly recommend you make the bridge permanent.

Installation

Open a Shell Terminal (e.g. PuTTY) and SSH to your server. Run the following commands:

wget -N http://files.virtualizor.com/install.sh
chmod 0755 install.sh
./install.sh email=your@email.com kernel=kvm

Installation Parameters

• email – The Admin Email Address
• kernel – In this case its kvm
• noos – If you dont want to download the DomU operating system for the DomU then please add noos=true as a parameter
• beta – If there is a newer version of Virtualizor available and you would like to test it then please add beta=true as a parameter
• nested_virt – If you want to enable Nested Virtualization on your server then please add nested_virt=1 as a parameter. If you enable this, it will install a new kernel for enabling nested virtualization. (NOTE: This feature is in BETA at the moment)
• lvg (optional) – If you are going to use LVM for the VPS storage. The Volume Group that will be used for the DomU (VPS) storage e.g. defaults to vg. It should have some OR ALL unallocated space to create LVMs for the VPS.
• interface – You can specify the default interface that you want to set. If not provided it will be considered as eth0.

The installation will begin immediately. It may seem that the installation has stopped, if your network speed is slow, but please let it continue. You will see something like this :

After the installation is completed you will be asked to reboot.

You can then visit the Admin Panel to create the Storage and the Virtual Servers and also manage your server.

Note : A log file of the installation process will be created – /root/virtualizor.log

Login

To login to the Softaculous Virtualizor Admin Panel, visit the following URL :

https://Your-IP:4085/

http://Your-IP:4084/

Login with the servers root details.

Admin Panel

After you login, you will see the Admin Panel Dashboard :

Ports

Virtualizor uses ports from 4081 – 4085. If there is any firewall restricting this, you will need to allow these ports.

Create Storage

Before creating any VMs, its necessary to define your storage.
Navigate to Virtualizor Admin Panel -> Storage -> Add Storage
You will see the following wizard :

Virtualizor Network in KVM

Virtualizor will create a viifbr0 bridge.
viifbr0 detects the IP, Netmask, GATEWAY from :

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Hence if you change the above file, you will need to restart the virtualizor network :

root> service virtnetwork restart

Start Command :

root> service virtnetwork start

Stop Command :

root> service virtnetwork stop

Trouble Shoot

NOTE : In all cases please remember to disable SElinux. The Virtualizor installer will try to disable it. For KVM make sure that VT is enabled from bios so VPS can be able to started .

Cant open http://IP-Address:4084

Please check if your iptables firewall is running You can disable it with the following command :

root> service iptables stop