virt-install "Validating install media failed"

[Henry Cheng <hbc2048@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting a vm going.  (This is my first time ever.  I believe I have kvm/qemu + virt-manager tools installed correctly.)  I have tried googling to no avail.  I've checksumed my iso image and I know it is not corrupt.  

Also, I've tried altering win10.iso line follows:

  --cdrom=/home/bill/win10.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide \ 

  --cdrom=/home/bill/win10.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide \  

  --cdrom path=/home/bill/win10.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide \

   --disk /home/bill/win10.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide   <<< this one gives:  "An install method must be specified"

I'm not sure what " non-existent path " means below because i know that file exists at that path.

Thanks in advance for any help!

(Also, I am doing this on a headless server so using the gui virt-manager isn't an option.)  

This is what I a getting when I try to create the vm. 

$ virt-install --name=win10 \
> --ram=4096 \
> --cpu=host \
> --vcpus=3 \
> --os-type=windows \
> --os-variant=win10 \
> --disk path=/home/bill/win10.img,bus=virtio \
> --cdrom=/home/bill/win10.iso,bus=ide \
> --disk path=/home/bill/virtio-win-0.1.172.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide \
> --network bridge=br0 \
> --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0
ERROR    Validating install media '/home/bill/win10.iso,bus=ide' failed: Must specify storage creation parameters for non-existent path '/home/bill/win10.iso,bus=ide'.

Not sure if this makes a difference but i created  win10.img as follows:  truncate -s 40G win10.img

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