bodhi zazen <bodhi.zazen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First is virsh I didn't realise I could create a new guest from virsh, so that may be helpful: thank you. Could you give me a sample command line that will boot from an ISO image and start the guest installation? > Second is to run kvm directly from the command line. You then use the > option -vnc :0 I explicitly stated that I didn't want to use X anywhere, including vnc, so that option won't work. > Third is to use one of several web interfaces (Personally I advise > Proxmox, there are others). Thanks again. I Googled Proxmox: it seems to be some kind of commercial anti-spam gateway with a "free" "lite" version. Not sure how that fits in to creating new guests on a KVM server. Also, it would seem to require X as it requires a web interface. Yes, I'm aware of links et al, but I don't really need them to install Linux. I don't think I've explained what I'm looking for very clearly, for which I apologise. Let me give a practical example. I'd like to ssh to a remote host, not running X, and download the latest Debian installer .iso. Debian has a text-mode installer. I'd like to create a new KVM guest on that server and "boot" the Debian iso and have the text-mode installation output come up in the ssh session, or at least have it accessible from the ssh session. Once the installation is complete, I can boot the guest into Debian proper. I can do almost all of that today; however, I use virt-install and it pops up a window containing the text-mode, character-based installation. I just need to redirect that so that instead of going to a separate window, the text mode installation is accessible directly from the ssh session. My suspicion was that virt-install's '--nographics' mode would be the clue to achieve what I want, but I've not been successful. Thanks for taking the time to make suggestions. Keith _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
