In a previous article I mentioned how to install a library in Fedora, in order to make KVM virtualization easier, managing the NAT network configuration between the guest virtual machine and the host, by means of libvirt.

Besides that, while using KVM locally for development, I use virt-manager, a helpful application that manages the different virtual machines. This application, as well as the rest of the commands that interact with libvirt (virsh for example), require super user privileges, so it will prompt for the sudo password every time.

Fedora 21 workstation seems to come with a lot of virtualization features and most of the libvirt libraries installed. I only had to add the KVM virtual-manager which is the KVM application I am more familiar with. However, the new version of the libvirt* libraries have networking features that are great for the data centre environment, but maybe not the best option for a particular workstation, so I added the following packages in order to set up an easier network configuration for my local virtual machines.