On 07/09/2015 07:57 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: > I'm a beginner to libvirt and creating VMs, for that matter. I have a set of specifications for VMs I need to create and log into, but I have to create them on an Ubuntu box that I only have ssh access to. I won't have desktop GUI access, although I do have dynamic port forwarding, so I can access a browser GUI from my desktop. > > Reading through the libvirt info, I see numerous mentions about using VNC to do additional work, but I won't be able to use VNC (not allowed within our firewall). > > I could use some advice on how to move forward with this. I've started at https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/libvirt.html for initial information. > > I managed to create a disk image for my first VM, and I believe I created the first VM using an ISO (based on CentOS, I believe), but I'll probably have to rebuild that, because I think I have to configure networks on the VM, which I didn't do on initial creation. I was confused by the initial results from "virt-install", because it seemed to hang after a second or two (I posted this SO question about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31302871/trouble-using-virt-install-on-ubuntu-to-create-vm-just-hangs-after-displaying ). The reply from this makes it seem like it was trying to present a GUI for next steps, but I of course never saw that. The VM appears to exist, but in a "shut off" state. You will need for your VM: - a storage - CPU - memory - display (ex: vnc) or console nice to have to: - installation device (ex: mounted ISO) are network boot - network (most time you need a network connection ;) ) I think reading the complete manpage for virt-install would be not to bad. But some informations that I can give you befor: you can connect virt-install, virsh, virt-viewer, virt-manager, ... over ssh to your virtualistation host. My virtualisation host dont have any graphics, i have only a SSH connection and doing all over it. I use virsh, virt-install and virtmanager. All works (tunneled) over SSH. For this you only need to connect on the right way: https://libvirt.org/remote.html https://libvirt.org/uri.html when you want to connect with for example virt-manager to your remote libvirtd just write the right URI and you can connect only with an SSH connection to it. If you want to use virt-install and virsh, for virt-install there is a good manual but for virsh I don't know a complete manual. But # virsh help command # should help to. you need to describe how you want to connect to your vm. I don't know the default which virt-install is taking but you can set it to vnc: --graphics=vnc When you don't have graphics where you are running virt-install then you should add: --noautoconsole You can start virt-install on you local machine and just give the option: --connect=driver[+transport]://[username@][hostname][:port]/[path]\[?extraparameters] So I hope I could help and answer some questions. Best Regards Aaron _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
