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Basic virtualization on Fedora using libvirt family of tools.

$ dnf group info virtualization
Last metadata expiration check: 1:30:35 ago on Wed 04 Apr 2018 02:53:03 PM EDT.

Group: Virtualization
 Description: These packages provide a graphical virtualization environment.
 Mandatory Packages:
   virt-install
 Default Packages:
   libvirt-daemon-config-network
   libvirt-daemon-kvm
   qemu-kvm
   virt-manager
   virt-viewer
 Optional Packages:
   guestfs-browser
   libguestfs-tools
   libvirt-client
   python-libguestfs
   virt-top
$ sudo dnf group install [--with-optional] @virtualization
$

Small problem:

$ sudo dnf group install --with-optional virtualization
Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:26 ago on Wed 04 Apr 2018 03:53:26 PM EDT.
Group 'Virtualization' is already installed.
No match for group package "python-libguestfs"
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
$
$ systemctl status libvirtd
● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-04-04 11:40:44 EDT; 5h 21min ago
     Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
           http://libvirt.org
 Main PID: 1551 (libvirtd)
    Tasks: 18 (limit: 32768)
   Memory: 38.5M
      CPU: 512ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service
           ├─1551 /usr/sbin/libvirtd
           ├─2027 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-
           └─2028 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf --leasefile-

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$ lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel             233472  0
kvm                   700416  1 kvm_intel
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm
$
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