# Prerequisites

## KVM

This tutorial leverages KVM. So you need to have a linux machine on which KVM is installed.

You can find how to install KVM on any linux distribution on the Internet.

In this tutorial, [openSUSE Tumbleweed](https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed) will be used, but in most cases, there should be no problem caused by specific distributions or libvirt versions.

Currently, I use the following packages:

```
# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20190201"
ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
ID_LIKE="opensuse suse"
VERSION_ID="20190201"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20190201"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
# rpm -qa | grep qemu
qemu-ui-sdl-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-ovmf-x86_64-2018+git1542164568.85588389222a-3.2.noarch
qemu-sgabios-8-2.4.noarch
qemu-vgabios-1.12.0-2.4.noarch
qemu-ui-curses-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-block-rbd-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-x86-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-ipxe-1.0.0+-2.4.noarch
qemu-seabios-1.12.0-2.4.noarch
qemu-block-curl-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-qemu-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
qemu-ui-gtk-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
qemu-tools-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-ksm-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-block-ssh-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
qemu-3.1.0-2.4.x86_64
#
#
# rpm -qa | grep libvirt
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-libs-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-glib-1_0-0-2.0.0-1.1.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-network-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-qemu-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
python3-libvirt-python-4.10.0-1.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-client-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd-4.10.0-2.2.x86_64
#
```


Next: [Installing the Client Tools](02-client-tools.md)