diff --git a/image-types/rhel8/kvm-guest-image.md b/image-types/rhel8/kvm-guest-image.md index 9ed46c8e8..eb0ac9425 100644 --- a/image-types/rhel8/kvm-guest-image.md +++ b/image-types/rhel8/kvm-guest-image.md @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ # KVM Guest Image -This is an image meant to be used as a generic base image for various -virtualization environments. +This is an image meant to be used as a generic base image for KVM +based hypervisors. It is mainly used with [Red Hat Virtualization +(RHV)][rhv] or [Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)][rhosp]. Using this +type of image with other types of hypervisors or with cloud providers +is not supported. To be usable in common environments, it is provided in the *qcow2* format and has *cloud-init* installed and enabled. @@ -16,3 +19,12 @@ The environments this image is meant to be used in usually don't require any specialized firmware. Thus, in order to keep the resulting image size small, all `-firmware` packages are excluded. An exception is the `linux-firmware` package, which cannot be excluded because the `kernel` package depends on it. + +The most common way to consume official Red Hat content using this type of +image is via [Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM)][rhsm] ([Red Hat +Satellite][satellite] / Red Hat CDN). + +[rhv]: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-virtualization/ +[rhosp]: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-openstack-platform/ +[rhsm]: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-subscription-management +[satellite]: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-satellite/