Fedora 15 Installation in kvm guest

Preliminary

• you need the script vm-create in your path and its system config file /etc/vm-create.conf.

To perform a net install of Fedora 15 in a virtual machine called "felix" - with 8 GB disk, bridge and sound support - to a remote host called "bareil", use the following syntax:

Pool install refreshed

Starting install...
Allocating 'felicia.img'                            | 8.0 GB     00:00
Creating domain...                                  |   0  B     00:00

You can use the option -t to print the whole command to be passed to virt-install to standard output before executing it:

virt-install 
--connect=qemu+ssh://bareil/system 
--ram=512 
--arch=i386 
--vcpus=1 
--video=vga 
--soundhw=default 
--description="felicia (fedora 15) - vm guest on host bareil" 
--os-variant=fedora15 
--disk vol=install/Fedora-14-i386-netinst.iso,device=cdrom 
--boot=cdrom,hd,network 
--disk pool=default,size=8 
--network bridge=br0
--vnc 
--vnclisten=0.0.0.0 
--name=felicia
iso URL: ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/
Fedora-14-i386-netinst.iso

A detailled description of the vm-create script has been posted in the openSUSE forum: vm-create : create kvm virtual machines.

* Notice that the option --boot=cdrom,hd,network is not available on virt-install version prior to 5003.

Booting Fedora

• You can press TAB at the boot menu and specify a higher resolution by appending the option vga to the kernel line. The numbers 771 and 773 respectively provide 800x600 and 1024x768 framebuffer. We'll use 771 in this tutorial. We also use the boot option resolution to set a 800x600 display for the graphical installation ( to be able to take smaller screenshots in this tutorial but otherwise you should not).

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