27.2 An Example Ubuntu virt-install Command

With reference to the above command-line argument list, we can now look at an example command-line construct using the virt-install tool.

Note that in order to be able to display the virtual machine and complete the installation, a virt-viewer instance will need to be connected to the virtual machine after it is started by the virt-install utility. By default, virt-install will attempt to launch virt-viewer automatically once the virtual machine starts running. If virt-viewer is not available, virt-install will wait until a virt-viewer connection is established. The virt-viewer session may be running locally on the host system if it has a graphical desktop, or a connection may be established from a remote client as outlined in the chapter entitled “Creating KVM Virtual Machines using Cockpit and virt-manager”.

The following command creates a new KVM virtual machine configured to run Fedora using KVM para-virtualization...