CentOS 8 & IBM Red Hat 8 QEMU & KVM

CentOS 8 & IBM Red Hat 8 support QEMU & KVM

# yum groupinstall "Virtualization Host"
# yum install virt-install
# yum install virt-manager
# yum install libvirt-nss
# systemctl enable --now libvirtd

however note that IBM Red Hat say

while QEMU is an essential component of the architecture, it is not intended to be used directly on RHEL 8 systems, due to security concerns. Therefore, using qemu-* commands is not supported by Red Hat, and it is highly recommended to interact with QEMU using libvirt.

so on centos 8 and ibm red hat 8 instead of qemu-* use these commands

$ virt-host-validate
$ virt-install
$ virt-manager
$ virt-viewer
$ virsh

See also

• https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/quickstart.html
• https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM
• https://linuxconfig.org/redhat-8-kvm-install-guide
• https://linuxhint.com/kvm_qemu_centos8_install/
• https://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/install-kvm-qemu-on-centos-7-rhel-7.html

and red hat developers also can refer to

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/virtualization-in-rhel-8-an-overview_configuring-and-managing-virtualization#con_tools-and-interfaces-for-virtualization-management-in-RHEl8_virt-overview