but i allredy have the freebsd disc image file on the server
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Dowdle" <dowdle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: create a guest
> Mattias,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> can i create a guest with libvirt and use an existing disc with
>> freebsd?
>
> libvirt is a library. Programs are written to use the functions it
> provides.
>
> libvirtd is a service that does things like provide a DHCP server to VMs
> that are using NAT.
>
> virtsh is a command line tool to manage virtual machines. It uses
> libvirt.
>
> virt-manager is a GUI tool to manage virtual machines. It uses libvirt.
>
> There are a number of other tools that are named virt-{whatever}. One of
> those is virt-install.
>
> The most direct, but perhaps more complicated way to do everything is to
> simply run qemu-kvm from the command line and pass to it all of the
> arguments needed to create a virtual machine from which you can boot from
> install media. Installing an OS from installation media is a graphical
> thing. There is a virtual video card that shows the output of the booting
> media. You will need a GUI of some sort to do a raw install. Once you
> have created a virtual machine, you can use the existing VMs storage (disk
> image file, partition, etc) as a cookie cutter to make other VMs from in a
> less GUI way.
>
> As others have said, you should probably install enough GUI stuff on your
> VM host machine so you can start with virt-manager. You don't have to run
> a complete desktop to use virt-manager. In fact you can ssh -X to your VM
> host from another machine that has X running and have virt-manager appear
> on your local display without running X11 on the VM host.
>
> So the answer to the question you keep repeating... is yes... you can
> install FreeBSD from a disc... if you'll start figuring out the system,
> how it works, and the tools that are available to do what you want.
>
> Having said that, I've not installed FreeBSD and I've not done an install
> from a physical CD/DVD. I've always done Linux or Windows from an .iso
> file... and I primarily use virt-manager. The non-GUI ways are mostly for
> advanced users.
>
> TYL,
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