Re: Virt-manager: create vm

[femi adegoke <ovirt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Pavel that is correct, as in not wanting the guest to get started.

I was hoping I could use virt-manager to "create" templates by "creating" a guest vm that is ready to be powered on whenever it's needed.

I could do this in Hyper-V & was hoping for similar functionality.

On Oct 2 2018, at 5:28 am, Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 04:34:22AM -0700, femi adegoke wrote:

I just tried using the "import" function.

This does not work, it still wants to start the installation.

So we need to agree on terminology:

If you are creating new guest using virt-manager GUI there are four

options: Local install media, Network install, Network Boot and Import.

From virt-manager/virt-install point of view the first three options

has two phases, install phase and final phase. The install phase

usually uses a different domain definition that the final phase.

During the install phase user usually installs the OS inside the guest

and once the installation is completed the definition is changed and it

starts again to the final phase.

In case of 'Import' installation there is no install phase, there is

only final phase.

With virt-manager GUI the guest is always started no matter which

installation method is selected.

From your description I'm guessing that you don't want the guest to be

started after it's created, that is not possible with virt-manager.

Pavel

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