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virt-install

virt-install

The virt-install command-line tool creates paravirtualized guests and hardware virtualized guests. virt-install can be used as an interactive shell, or all parameters can be given at the same time. Enter multiple parameters to the virt-install command-line tool in the format:

virt-install [option ...]

This section contains a brief explanation of some of the more common virt-install options. For full documentation, use the virt-install-hcommand.

Chapter 4, "Creating a Guest" discusses using the virt-install tool.

Options

[-h --help]

Displays the virt-install command parameters and their purpose.

virt-install -h

[-nname --name=name]

Sets the name of the guest instance.

virt-install -nMyGuest

[-rRAM --ram=RAM]

Sets the memory to allocate for a guest instance in Megabytes.

virt-install --ram=256

[-uUUID --uuid=UUID]

Sets the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) for the guest. If none is given, a random UUID is generated.

virt-install -u

[--vcpus=number]

Sets the number of virtual CPUs to configure for the guest.

virt-install --vcpus=2

[-fdiskfile --file=diskfile]

Sets the file to use as the disk image.

virt-install --file=/home/myhome/myimage

[-sfilesize --file-size=filesize]

Sets the size of the disk image (if it does not exist) in Gigabytes.

virt-install -s2

[-nonsparse]

Do not use sparse files for disks. This option may be significantly slower when creating guests.

[-mvalue --mac=value]

Sets the fixed MAC address for the guest; if none or RANDOM is given, a random address is used.

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