Virt-install

virt-install is part of virtinst package.

• https://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install

virt-install --prompt

Logs:

~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-install.log
[Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:30:36 virt-install 2890] DEBUG (virt-install:744) Domain state after install: 1

Virt-install Windows

qemu-img create -f qcow2 IMAGE_NAME.qcow2  10G
virt-install --name=TEST --os-type=windows --disk path=/path/to/your/precreated_image/IMAGE_NAME.qcow2 --cdrom=/path/to/your/iso/Win10_1909_EnglishInternational_x64.iso --graphics spice --ram=1024
Starting install...
Domain installation still in progress. Waiting for installation to complete.

https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/virt-install.html

virt-install --virt-type=kvm --name MY_VMNAME --ram 1024 --disk  /path/to/your/precreated_image/IMAGE_NAME.qcow2,format=qcow2 --network network=default --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole --os-type=windows --os-variant=win2k3 --cdrom=/srv/software/Win10_1909_EnglishInternational_x64.iso 
Starting install...
Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.
virsh vncdisplay MY_VMNAME

Virt-install with errors

virt-install --connect=qemu:///system --name=mywin --os-type=windows  -r 1024 --cpus=1 --os-variant=win2k3 --hvm --cdrom=/path/to/en_windows_2k3.iso --disk path=/path/to/win2k3.img --accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --vnc

WARNING  Graphics requested but DISPLAY is not set. Not running virt-viewer.
WARNING  No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1

WARNING  Graphics requested but DISPLAY is not set. Not running virt-viewer.
WARNING  No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1
Starting install...
ERROR    Cannot get interface MTU on 'br0': No such device
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
 virsh --connect qemu:///system start mywin
otherwise, please restart your installation.

ERROR    Cannot read CA certificate '/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No such file or directory

WARNING  Graphics requested but DISPLAY is not set. Not running virt-viewer.
WARNING  No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1

Starting install...
ERROR    internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2020-02-05T10:13:42.360993Z 
qemu-system-x86_64: -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1,bootindex=1: Failed to get shared "write" lock
Is another process using the image?
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
 virsh --connect qemu:///system start MY_DOMAIN
otherwise, please restart your installation.

Related commands

• --virt-type kvm or --virt-type qemu
• virt-builder
• qemu-img
• virt-rescue Run a rescue shell on a virtual machine
• virsh pool-define-as
• virt-manager, virt-viewer and remote-viewer

Activities

• Create a virtual machine using virt-install
• Clone a machine using: virt-clone
• Install KVM in an Ubuntu Server
• Read Use virt-install and connect by using a local VNC client: https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/virt-install.html

See also

• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM
• virtinst (package): virt-install, virt-clone, virt-convert and virt-xml