Re: [CentOS] Creating KVM-based VM with virt-manager and virt-install on C7

On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 11:23 +0200, Meikel wrote:

Hi folks,

for learning purposes I create KVM-based VM with the virt-manager. Later I get rid of the VM and repeat the "process" again. When recreating the VM I always enter the same values into the wizard in virt-manager (i.e. I want to speicfy a given MAC).

I'd like to "automate" this procedure, all of what I do in virt- manager for creating the new VM, I' d like to do it with a bash script using virt-install.

I' wndering if it is possible to "record" the values when I enter them into virt-manager and extract those values for usage with virt- install? It's not clear to me when I enter a field in the wizard what is the corresponding parameter in virt-install.

Regards,

Meikel

Hi,

I think your looking for:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/htm...

After you have built the a VM in virt-manager say, with ith this XML file you can recreate the same VM, modify if needed and create other VMs etc.

Regards

Phil