Re: [libvirt-users] KVM guest creation - no manual interference
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:16:14AM -0300, Lucas Arbiza wrote:
I've looking for a way to create KVM virtual machines completely
automated
without the need to interact with guest operating system during
installation.
With ubuntu-vm-builder is possible create the guest, list packages to be
installed and scripts to be run. Is there a way to do something like it with
libvirt?
I've (just today) achieved this using virt-manager, built on top of libvirt,
for centos guests at least, defining a mirror URI for the kernel and initrd
images, and a kickstart URL, having written a kickstart script for anaconda
and stored it on a webserver ahead of time.
<http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/>
virt-manager is packaged in Debian/Ubuntu too.
I haven't built any Debian/Ubuntu VMs yet, but I would basically do the same
thing but using debconf preseeding for automated Debian installations.
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Jon Dowland