On Friday 10 Sep 2010 15:16:14 Lucas Arbiza wrote: I wrote Cucumber-VHost for exactly this purpose. We use Cucumber-VHost and puppet as well as cobbler and Hudson to completely automate the build and testing of our configuration files. Cucumber-VHost creates a virtual machine based on it's definition in cobbler and a plain english script invoked by Rake. More details are on my blog at http://www.threedrunkensysadsonthe.net/ and in GitHub: http://github.com/proffalken/cucumber-vhost HTH, M.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Jon Dowland <jon+libvirt-users(a)alcopop.org&gt; wrote: I experimented only briefly with vmbuilder, so I'm no expert. But if what you're asking is how to create libvirt-managed VMs using vmbuilder, I think this page gives you what you need to get started: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/jeos-and-vmbuilder.html This is what I've done to automate installation of our Ubuntu VMs. I've been using command-line tools rather than virt-manager, so I'm using virt-install to create the VM. By telling virt-install where to look for certain information, I can initiate a fully automatic Ubuntu install. The key arguments to virt-install are these:   --location=http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/   --extra-args="url=http://127.0.0.1/custom.seed" The first one tells virt-install where to find the Ubuntu installer. (You might want to use a local mirror rather than ubuntu.com for anything more than testing.) Pointing directly to the installer rather than at an Ubuntu CD image lets you skip the prompt that you get upon booting the CD before launching the installer. The "extra-args" argument is passed along to the installer, and tells the installer where to look for the debconf preseed file. You'll need to tune that preseed file to exactly what you want. Ubuntu has some good docs to help with that: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/amd64/appendix-preseed.html -- Brian P.S. For anyone interested, I've posted the wrapper script I've written to encapsulate the many arguments I pass to virt-install every time: http://robergb.pastebin.com/VkXH2DH3 And here's my preseed file: http://robergb.pastebin.com/9GvHbAyu I welcome any suggestions for improvements.