On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 08:32:55PM -0800, Connor Kuehl wrote:
> On 12/11/24 7:43 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> The man page for virt-install [1] does not list valid arch's. (I can't
>> find a page for virt-install at
libvirt.org).
>> Where can I find the list of valid arch's for virt-install?
>
> Hmm, yeah, it seems the --arch argument doesn't support the usual method
> for enumerating possible values (which to be fair, the man page says *some*
> suboptions support that):
>
> $ virt-install --arch=?
> ERROR Host does not support any virtualization options for architecture
'?'
>
> I think something like this is a reasonable fallback:
>
> $ virsh capabilities | xmllint --xpath '//arch/@name' -
Or
$ virsh capabilities --xpath '//arch/@name'
even ;)
Cool! TIL. My distro version must be too old but I'll keep that one in
mind.
$ virsh capabilities --xpath '//arch/@name'
error: command 'capabilities' doesn't support option --xpath
--
Connor