Virtinst

virtinst package, includes following python binaries: virt-clone, virt-convert, virt-install and virt-xml

Activities

• Create a virtual machine using virt-install
• Clone a machine using: virt-clone

Related commands

• virt-builder

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
• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list
• virsh dumpxml
• Changing VM running status operations: start, shutdown, destroy, reboot, reset, resume
• Offline Migrate or move a virtual machine between two KVM servers without shared storage
• QEMU: qemu-img, qemu-ga, qemu.conf, virsh qemu, QEMU guest agent (qemu-ga), qcow2, qemu-nbd, qemu-img map, qemu-io, /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, QEMU releases, VENOM, qemu-nbd --help, qemu-system

https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/tree/master/virtinst

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/virtinst/virt-install.1.en.html

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/getting-started-with-virtualization-in-rhel-8_configuring-and-managing-virtualization