Jun Koi wrote:

Hi,

I have some existing QEMU images. Now I want to use it with libvirt/virsh. Is there any easy way to do that?

I suppose that we need an XML file for each image, but dont want to craft them from scratch.

Thanks, Jun

There isn't really an official way to do this, but we will probably add some explicit support for it to virt-install or virt-manager down the line. You can try something like this (obviously this is dependent on your previous virt-install troubles being fixed): virt-install --name somename --ram 256 --vnc \ --hvm --accelerate \ --cdrom /some/existing/file \ --file /path/to/existing/image \ The vnc console should pop up, but if you just pointed to some useless file for cdrom boot will fail (which is fine). Just kill virt-install, run 'virsh destroy somename' (this will hard poweroff the VM), and the VM should be good to go for future runs. - Cole