A simple patch to make virt-install instantiate the appropriate guest type with a DistroInstaller instance. This should be the same as passing installer=None to the guest constructors. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: virtinst--devel/virt-install =================================================================== --- virtinst--devel.orig/virt-install +++ virtinst--devel/virt-install @@ -516,10 +516,12 @@ def main(): elif virtinst.util.is_kqemu_capable(): type = "kqemu" + installer = virtinst.DistroInstaller(type = type) + if hvm: - guest = virtinst.FullVirtGuest(connection=conn, type=type, arch=options.arch) + guest = virtinst.FullVirtGuest(connection=conn, installer=installer, arch=options.arch) else: - guest = virtinst.ParaVirtGuest(connection=conn, type=type) + guest = virtinst.ParaVirtGuest(connection=conn, installer=installer) # now let's get some of the common questions out of the way get_name(options.name, guest) --