You will need to connect to the Debian installer somehow if you go that route, I am not familiar with it and I am not sure if you can simply boot the iso and then connect to the guest via ssh.
For virsh, since I see your google is broken =)
http://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/15/migrating-kvm-hosts-with-virsh/
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2450/6n4o5me9j?a=view
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-9.04-p3
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Managing
That should certainly get you started.
As far as running KVM without X I suggest you read man qemu
Or try this blog :
http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/how-to-run-kvm-without-x/
with the -vnc flag you can run without X
-vnc none
or , since you are installing from an iso, -vnc :0 (or what have you) so you may connect to the installer from remote.
Neither -vnc none or -vnc :0 require X at all on the (host) server or guest (you can connect via vnc to a minimal guest with no X installed on either host or guest).
Happy reading =)
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Bodhi Zazen <bodhi.zazen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Keith Edmunds" <kae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:44:18 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Running virt-install without X
New to list. I couldn't find a searchable archive of this ML, so
apologies if this has been asked before (feel free to flame me, but
please include a pointer to where I can find the answer).
I've been looking at KVM virtualisation recently. I want to use it on a
hosted server without X installed, and I want to be able to create new
(Linux) guests from the command line.
virt-install lets me kick off an installation, but everything I've tried
so far needs a graphical terminal of some sort to carry out the
text-based (Debian Lenny) installation. Once the installation is
complete, I can use 'virsh' to connect to the serial console and that
works fine.
I suspect the key is in virt-install's '--nographics' option, but I
can't seem to connect to the console to carry out the installation
after using that option. Can anyone shed some light?
(Just to be clear: I want to do everything via an ssh session, so no
VNC, etc).
Thanks,
Keith
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