Yes I'm aware of what virtio is. The script is wrong though: extra="bus=virtio" [...] virt-install -n $name -r 8192 \ $cpus $type $variant $disk $location $graphics $extra $network Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top