26.3 Starting the Installation

To start the new virtual machine and begin installing the guest operating system from the designated installation media, click on the Install button highlighted in Figure 26-3 above. Cockpit will start the virtual machine and switch to the Consoles view where the guest OS screen will appear:

Figure 26-5

If the installation fails, check the message to see if it reads as follows:

unsupported configuration: CPU mode ‘custom’ for x86_64 kvm domain on x86_64 host is not supported by hypervisor

To resolve this issue, delete the newly created virtual machine, reboot the system and then recreate the machine.

Alternatively, check whether the message reads as follows:

Could not open ‘<path to iso image>’: Permission denied

Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.

This usually occurs because the QEMU emulator runs as a user named qemu which does not have access to the directory in...