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In this post, I’ll just share a quick command that can be used to build and install a KVM guest using PXE instead of an ISO image. There’s nothing new here; this is just me documenting a command so that it’s easier for me (and potentially others) to find next time I need it.
I shared how to use the virt-install
command to build KVM guest domains in a blog post talking about working with KVM guests. In that post, I used an ISO image with the virt-install
command to build the guest domain.
However, there may be times when you would prefer to use PXE instead of an ISO image. To build a KVM guest domain and instruct the guest domain to boot via PXE, you would use this command (I’ve inserted backslashes and line returns to improve readability):
sudo virt-install --name=guest-name --ram=2048 --vcpus=1
--disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/guest-disk.qcow2,bus=virtio
--pxe --noautoconsole --graphics=vnc --hvm
--network network=net-name,model=virtio
--os-variant=ubuntuprecise
The key here is the --pxe
parameter, which virt-install
uses to instruct the guest domain to PXE boot instead of booting from a virtual CD-ROM backed by an ISO image.
Naturally, you’d want to substitute the desired values for the KVM Continue reading