[NTLUG:Discuss] Has anyone gotten RHEL/CentOS 10.0 to install as a Qemu/KVM VM?

[Thomas Cameron]

On 8/14/25 4:46 PM, David Eddleman wrote:
> A lot of those are downstream forks of RHEL. CentOS was the first, but
> there's many of them. Oracle Linux is the biggest one, and is commercial,
> the rest are usually community driven. Rocky and Alma are the biggest two
> free ones. AWS' Amazon Linux 2/2023 are both based on RHEL, 7 and 8
> respectively. They are within 99% the same, might be some minor changes to
> cut out proprietary code to maintain GPL/GNU/BSD/etc. licensing.

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Amazon Linux 2023 is based on Fedora plus some packages from CentOS 
Stream: 
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/relationship-to-fedora.html

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Source: I was a Linux solution architect at AWS when it came out, I'm 
pretty darned familiar with it.

I do not recommend it unless you're willing to be locked in to AWS 
tooling, build cycle, etc. It's designed to make you dependent upon AWS 
services so you can't move off them, in my opinion and experience. And 
little from Fedora is actually available for AL2023. I used it a LOT, 
hated it, and moved back to RHEL.

Disclaimer: I worked for Red Hat for ~ 14 years, and was recruited away 
by AWS to start an Amazon Linux partner program. I am back at Red Hat 
after ~ 4 years at AWS. I regret leaving Red Hat, ESPECIALLY to go to 
AWS. The culture is not even in the same galaxy.

If you want RHEL, go to https://developers.redhat.com/ and sign up for 
an account. RHEL is available for personal use for up to 16 devices, at 
zero cost. We encourage folks to learn genuine RHEL. No strings 
attached. It's free as in speech, and free as in beer.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always available to help 
folks get started with Red Hat.

-- 
Thomas