Installing and configuring the hypervisor

Learn how to set up the hypervisor on a target environment.

Make sure that the prerequisites are met. For more information, see Linux on IBM Z requirements.
The hypervisor must be installed and configured on the Linux on IBM Z system before this machine can be used as a target environment.
  1. After the instillation of the web server is completed, you can find the hypervisor installer. Copy the installer to your target environment system.
    For Ubuntu
    <installation_directory>/zvdt/zSystem/z1091_2.2.M2.19_s390x.deb
    For RHEL
    <installation_directory>/zvdt/zSystem/z1091_2.2.M2.19_s390x.rpm
  2. Install the hypervisor by running the following command. For dependencies, see Linux on IBM Z requirements.
    On Ubuntu
    dpkg -i <path_to_file>/z1091_2.2.M2.19_s390x.deb
    On RHEL
    rpm -i <path_to_file>/z1091_2.2.M2.19_s390x.rpm
  3. Modify environment variables for root. Add the variables to ~/.bashrc. 
    export PATH=/usr/z1090/bin:$PATH;
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/z1090/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
  4. Configure the license server by running this command and following the prompt. 
    /usr/z1090/bin/clientconfig
  5. Create a non-root user ID, for example, ibmsys1, and then assign it to a KVM group. 
    useradd -m ibmsys1 -g kvm -d /home/ibmsys1
  6. Modify environment variables for the non-root user ID created in the previous step. Add the variables to ~/.bashrc. 
    export PATH=/usr/z1090/bin:$PATH;
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/z1090/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH;