Setting up the linux environment

Owned by Torsten Schmidt
Last updated: Dec 07, 2018
1 min read


We recommend to use VMs for NMS Prime. This will make life easier in the future, because:

Pros while using VMs:

  • full backup possibility (snapshots)
  • easy updates and backwards compatibility
  • hardware independence
  • more flexible while moving towards HA-architecture (High Availability) and Clustering


We use qemu KVM architecture with the virt-manager GUI.

Pros while using KVM:

  • completely free / open source
  • native linux kernel support
  • large community
  • fast, stable and worldwide tested


Recommended file format is *.qcow2. This file format will only allocate as much space as required on the real host.