Stephan wrote:
Hi,
I've been creating images with virt-install (thanks by the way!)
I was just wondering, is there a way to specify the disk image file type
when you create the machine? I can convert it using tools from qemu, but
it's an extra step and I'd prefer to have the images as qcow2 from the
start if possible.
I'm doing this:
sudo mkdir /vservers/edi1-whatever1/ && sudo virt-install --hvm
--accelerate --os-type=linux --os-variant=debianEtch --arch=x86_64
--bridge=br0 --ram=256 --vcpus=4 --check-cpu --vnc --name=edi1-whatever1
--file=/vservers/edi1-whatever1/disk0.qcow2 --file-size=8
--cdrom=/dev/cdrom --debug
but the file isn't the right format:
file disk0.qcow2
disk0.qcow2: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1,
startsector 63, 15952482 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x5, starthead 0,
startsector 15952545, 819315 sectors
instead of something like this:
file disk0.qcow2
disk0.qcow2: Qemu Image, Format: Qcow , Version: 2
Is there a way to specify the image type using virt-install? I've read the
man file and looked on the Internet, but can't find the answer. Sorry if
this is an easy question.
Do you have a kickstart file to describe the system? if so, you can
build it with the appliance-tools package and then install is using
virt-image. You can control the file type with that chain.
appliance-creator --config FOO.ks -f qcow2 --vcpu 4 --vmem 256
-- bk
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