but i allredy have the freebsd disc image file on the server ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Dowdle" <dowdle at montanalinux.org> To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt at centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest > Mattias, > > ----- Original Message ----- >> can i create a guest with libvirt and use an existing disc with >> freebsd? > > libvirt is a library. Programs are written to use the functions it > provides. > > libvirtd is a service that does things like provide a DHCP server to VMs > that are using NAT. > > virtsh is a command line tool to manage virtual machines. It uses > libvirt. > > virt-manager is a GUI tool to manage virtual machines. It uses libvirt. > > There are a number of other tools that are named virt-{whatever}. One of > those is virt-install. > > The most direct, but perhaps more complicated way to do everything is to > simply run qemu-kvm from the command line and pass to it all of the > arguments needed to create a virtual machine from which you can boot from > install media. Installing an OS from installation media is a graphical > thing. There is a virtual video card that shows the output of the booting > media. You will need a GUI of some sort to do a raw install. Once you > have created a virtual machine, you can use the existing VMs storage (disk > image file, partition, etc) as a cookie cutter to make other VMs from in a > less GUI way. > > As others have said, you should probably install enough GUI stuff on your > VM host machine so you can start with virt-manager. You don't have to run > a complete desktop to use virt-manager. In fact you can ssh -X to your VM > host from another machine that has X running and have virt-manager appear > on your local display without running X11 on the VM host. > > So the answer to the question you keep repeating... is yes... you can > install FreeBSD from a disc... if you'll start figuring out the system, > how it works, and the tools that are available to do what you want. > > Having said that, I've not installed FreeBSD and I've not done an install > from a physical CD/DVD. I've always done Linux or Windows from an .iso > file... and I primarily use virt-manager. The non-GUI ways are mostly for > advanced users. > > TYL, > -- > Scott Dowdle > 704 Church Street > Belgrade, MT 59714 > (406)388-0827 [home] > (406)994-3931 [work] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >