Jun Koi wrote: 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