26.2 Creating a Virtual Machine in Cockpit

To create a virtual machine in Cockpit, simply click on the Create VM button marked B in Figure 26-1 to display the creation dialog.

Within the dialog, enter a name for the machine and choose whether the installation media is in the form of an ISO accessible via a URL or a local filesystem path. Ideally, also select the vendor and operating system type information for the guest. While not essential, this will aid the system in optimizing the virtual machine for the guest.

Also specify the size of the virtual disk drive to be used for the operating system installation and the amount of memory to be allocated to the virtual machine:

Figure 26-2

Note that Cockpit provides the choice of running the guest with a Session or System connection. If the system option is selected, the guest will connect to the system instance of the libvirtd service which is already running in the background with root privileges. The session option,...