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up vote 4 down vote favorite 2 Disclaimer : I now use virt-manager to create and manage my VM and it is really a life saver. It can be used remotely if the host does not have graphical display. The occurrences of vnc in the installation guides I had found lead me to think that using the recommended procedure, I would install X stuff either on host, guest or both. Absolutely not. My mistake. If you are in the virt-install error validating install location same situation and state of (lack of) knowledge, think twice before trying to install the VM from command line. I'm trying to install a Debian VM in a Debian host using virt-install and I don't know how to pass it the .iso image. virt-install --connect qemu:///system --virt-type kvm --name prod --ram 6144 --disk /srv/vm/prod.qcow,format=qcow2,size=10 --location=/home/jerome/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso --network bridge=br0 --os-type linux --os-variant debianwheezy --extra-args='console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' Starting install... Retrieving file info... | 160 B 00:00 ... ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at '/home/jerome/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso' The location must be the root directory of an install tree. Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start prod otherwise, please restart your installation. root@versailles:/etc# The solutions I have seen seem quite twisted, like using apache to serve locally the .iso image as if it was from a distant place. Linux Mint 14 : install Ubuntu 12.10 Server within KVM via CLI ( no GUI ) [Xen-users] installing a vm with virt-install (It is Xen but it looks like it is the same issue anyway. I can't believe it is that complicated. Is it? man virt-install says: If you want to use those options with CDROM media, you have a few options: * Run virt-install as root and do --location ISO * Mount the ISO at a local directory, and do --location DIRECTORY * Mount the IS

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Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207090/install-vm-from-command-line-with-virt-install answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Cannot install windows guest using virt-install up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 I am trying to install a windows guest (Windows Sever 2012 64-bit) on my CentOS 6.4 64-bit system using virt-install command. Command: /usr/sbin/virt-install --graphics vnc,port=5903,listen=127.0.0.1,password=redhat --noautoconsole --name=myos2 --ram=1024 --arch=x86_64 --vcpus=1 --hvm --disk path=/media/skrtbhtngr/wins2012,size=32 -m 66:55:44:33:22:00 --location=/root/Desktop/OS_Images/en_windows_server_2012_x64_dvd_915478.iso Output: Starting install... ERROR http://serverfault.com/questions/606787/cannot-install-windows-guest-using-virt-install Could not find an installable distribution at '/root/Desktop/OS_Images/en_windows_server_2012_x64_dvd_915478.iso' The location must be the root directory of an install tree. Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start myos2 otherwise, please restart your installation. Also, when I use Virtual Machine Manager, the OS installation starts successfully. Now, this happens with all windows guests (Win7 etc...). What I couldn't figure out where I am wrong? PS: I am new to the world of virtualization! virtual-machines virt-install share|improve this question asked Jun 20 '14 at 14:51 skrtbhtngr 1085 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted I think you want to use --cdrom instead of --location to point to the ISO. Then the VM should boot to the ISO. http://opennodecloud.com/documentation/howtos/kvm-guests-virt-install-examples/ share|improve this answer answered Jun 20 '14 at 15:08 Neil H Watson 271413 1 please tell why --location works for linux guest iso file but not for that of windows? –skrtbhtngr Jun 20 '14 at 15:23 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in S

com" https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-November/msg00083.html redhat com> Subject: [libvirt-users] How to use virt-install and http to install openbsd VM in KVM? Date: Wed, 30 http://askubuntu.com/questions/311073/build-ubuntu-vm-using-mirror Nov 2011 07:10:44 -0800 Hi, Not quite sure if this is the right forum for this question. My an install requirement is to http boot openbsd in KVM. This works fine with RHEL6 guest install but not with OpenBSD. I loop mounted the openbsd installer on the http server. My Http server directory looks like: [root uefiserver could not find vm-openbsd]# ll total 5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root kmem 2048 Aug 17 09:35 5.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root kmem 2048 Aug 17 09:35 etc -r--r--r-- 1 root root 82 Aug 17 09:35 TRANS.TBL My browser can see this directory no problem. And KVM output: [root lid-hs22-2 ~]# virt-install --hvm --connect qemu:///system --network=bridge:br0 --location=http://10.10.36.134/vm-openbsd/ --name=vm5-openbsd --ram=2048 --vcpus=2 --os-type=unix --file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm5-openbsd.img --file-size=20 ERROR Error creating cdrom disk: Could not find an installable distribution at 'http://10.10.36.134/vm-openbsd/' The location must be the root directory of an install tree. [root lid-hs22-2 ~]# IS this supported? Did I use the right semantics? Thanks. - David [Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index]

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