Le 26. 04. 12 10:02, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:27:36PM +0200, arnaud gaboury wrote:
virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name=daffodil --ram 8192 --cpu host
--disk path=/dev/vg0/lv_daffodil,size=200,bus=virtio,sparse=false,format=raw
--cdrom /var/lib/libvirt/images/isofiles/debian-6.0.4-amd64-netinst.iso
--description="daffodil (debian squeeze) - vm guest on host magnolia"
--graphics vnc --os-type=linux --os-variant=debiansqueeze
--network bridge:br0 --video=vga --hvm --accelerate
Is the command correct and academic?
I have a "standard" script I use to automate virt-install:
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#!/bin/bash -
# Script used to install VMs.
# You have to lvcreate the disk first!
# lvcreate -L 10G -n $name vg_data
set -e
name=F16x64
cpus="--cpu=host --vcpus=4"
disk="--disk path=/dev/vg_data/$name"
#location="-l http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/x86_64/os/";
location="--cdrom /mnt/media/installers/Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD/Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso"
type="--os-type=linux"
variant="--os-variant=fedora16"
#graphics="--graphics spice"
#options="-x btrfs"
#extra=""
virt-install -n $name -r 1024 \
$cpus $type $variant $disk $location $graphics $options $extra
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By making small adjustments to this, I can install all guests I need.
I think size=200 is maybe not needed, as the LV has already be created. Right?
format=raw seems weird to me and not needed. Right?
You don't need size or format since virt-install will pick that up
from the disk image itself.
My host has 16G RAM. Shall I put 16 as --ram argument or stay with 8 ?
Depends how much you need for the *guest*. It needs to be smaller
than the host size, but will depend on how many concurrent guests you
want to run.
How about the filesystem? I want an ext4. Shall I create it on
lv_daffodil BEFORE the install or will I do it under the install
process when partitioning?
No, the guest installer deals with all that.
Not sure about the --accelerate argument
--accelerate is not required with modern virt-install.
Rich.
Rich,
thank you much for your answer. I first posted one week agon in Arch
forum, usually very active, and I am still with no help.
If I understand correcty, my command line was not so bad. I will adapt
your script.
About this line :
cpus="--cpu=host --vcpus=4"
Why add vcpus=4 as I thought cpu=host would indicate to use same CPU
config as your host?
