I made a couple machines like this last year. Why on earth did I add "os-variant=fedora10"? Can't remember. I had issues mixing libvirt and VMware. I ran into some odd SSL errors, and the machines couldn't see each other. I didn't get to the bottom of those problems. HOST=esxi7-1 OS_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST.qcow2 DATASTORE_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST-datastore.qcow2 INSTALL_ISO=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2-17630552.x86_64.iso IF1_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:10 IF2_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:11 HOST=esxi7-2 OS_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST.qcow2 DATASTORE_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST-datastore.qcow2 INSTALL_ISO=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2-17630552.x86_64.iso IF1_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:12 IF2_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:13 virt-install \ --name="$HOST" \ --vcpus=8 \ --ram=20480 \ --cpu host-passthrough \ --disk path=$OS_DISK,size=20,bus=sata \ --disk path=$DATASTORE_DISK,size=200,bus=sata \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant=fedora10 \ --network network=pubbr0,mac=$IF1_MAC,model=e1000e \ --network network=privbr0,mac=$IF2_MAC,model=e1000e \ --boot uefi,menu=on,cdrom,hd \ --graphics vnc \ --video qxl \ --cdrom $INSTALL_ISO \ --noautoconsole \ --features kvm_hidden=on \ --machine q35 On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:58 AM Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: