Virtualization inside our own x86machine is not something so easy to deal with until recently. With massive distribution of Linux a we know what distro, Operating system virtualization begins to come into end user machine (since they desparately need windows for i don't know what). Unfortunely from what i read across most of the forums, this particular distro are so focused on the usage of Vmware and Virtual Box while leaving Qemu behind.
There a lot reasons why we shouldn't use Vmware and Vbox in the first place. The main reason is both software couldn't keep up with the latest kernel developments (from my experience). Also the needs to rebuild the kernel module after each updates is pain . Also have any of this users try running their virtualization at daemon level (instead of running vmware player and virtualbox player in the first place). So with that as my point of argument i left both methods and choose qemu.
Leaving my ramblings outside, let's take the easy step how to administrate qemu usage inside Fedora.
1. Install respective packages
yum install virt-manager qemu kqemu
2. Ensure libvitd is running
service libvirtd start
3. Well do we really need bridge networking? Yes/no/Idon'tcare
Kagesenshi have wrote an excellent guide on this
4. Create some raw virtual image first using qemu-img.
qemu-img create -f raw whateverimage.img 20M *or it can be K,G,B
5. Launch Virtual Manager
Application>System Tools> Virtual Machine Manager.
The rest of the step is just some simple wizard walkthrough :)
Additional information,
If "cat /proc/cpuinfo |egrep "svm|vmx" , is detected. You might want to try on setting up a KVM.
As usual some snapshots
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