--arch

      --arch ARCH
          Request a non-native CPU architecture for the guest virtual machine.  If omitted, the host CPU architecture will be used in the guest.

Related terms

• ARM, KVM on ARM, Ampere Computing, Marvell, ARM Cortex-A15, ARM Cortex-A53, Apple M1, aarch64, arm64, Apple A14, Apple A15, Samsung Exynos, Exception levels, AWS Graviton2, AWS Graviton3, ARM Neoverse

See also

• virt-install, --disk, --import, --arch, --extra-args, --graphics, --network (KVM), --location, --cloud-init, --virt-type
• 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