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Hardware Compatability

For testing purposes hardware compatibility is a particularly important concern if you have an older or custom-built system. Because hardware specifications change almost daily, it is recommended that systems should be checked for compatibility. The most recent list of supported hardware can be found in the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List, available online at https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/search/#/category/Server. Also see Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology capabilities and limits for general information about system requirements.

As a general rule just about any hardware will suffice as a Standalone test machines or as a host for a virtual environment.

VM Setups

VirtualBox

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Microsoft Windows

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MacOS

Very remiss of me (Terry Fage) in not mentioning the MacOS setup was captured and written up by Chris (I wont list his username unless he wants to) I simply copied pasted, we need more Chris's

Create a new Virtual Machine, choose 'Linux' as the type, 'Other Linux (64-bit)' as the version and set the memory to at least 1GB, ideally 2GB+ as ClamAV on its own needs ~1GB.

 

Set your new drive to at least 10GB, leave it as VDI, Dynamically Allocated

 

Once the machine's created, go into Settings -> System. Change the Chipset type to ICH9

 

Under System -> Processor, bump it up to 2 CPUs if your machine supports it

 

By default, under storage you'll have an IDE controller. Hit the X at the bottom to remove it

 

Add an AHCI controller in its place

 

Set the port count to 2, then hit the + disk icon on the controller

 

Choose the VDI created in the machine setup

 

Do the same with the CD icon. Choose the SME ISO if you've already added it to Virtual Media Manager. If it's not there then hit 'Add' and browse for the ISO

 

Disable audio. Not mandatory, but you're not going to need it

 

Choose a 'bridged' network adapter and make sure it's attached to your host's main network connection. This way your VM will becaues like a normal machine on your network and you can SSH to it

 

You're done - fire up the VM and the installer should start
Note - when the machine reboots you may see a 'critical error' (unless it's just my Hackintosh being weird). This is fine - just hit Ok and start it up again

 

Linux

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Proxmox

Proxmox VE is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, and easily manages high availability clusters and disaster recovery tools with the built-in web management interface.

Install Proxmox #.# to suitable hardware - see proxmox wiki for details of setup

Start Proxmox, login as root, before creating a new VM there needs to be a relevant iso image available from pve storage to act as a install CD/DVD, this and other OS isos needs to be uploaded to pve local storage
 
Select upload button
 
Select a suitable iso and upload
 

Install/configure Koozali SME9/10 VM on proxmox VE

If not already running Start Proxmox and login as root, Select Create VM button in top right corner

 
 
Enter name details of new VM 
 
Select CD/DVD image file to use as install source
 
 
VM System, safe to accept defaults
  
Hard disk details, type/size - min of 10gb will suffice for a SME10 install
 
 CPU depending on hardware the more the better - 1 Socket 2 cores sufficent

 
Memory
 
Network
 
Summary
 
Additional Hardware

ESXi