Virt-install

External

• RHEL7 Virtualization Administration - Creating Guests with virt-install

Internal

• Linux Virtualization Operations
• Linux Virtualization Configuration

Overview

virt-install is a command-line utility for provisioning new virtual machines. It comes as part of the "virt-install" RPM package.

virt-install needs root privileges to work.

Documentation

virt-install --help

Mandatory Options

--memory

The amount of memory allocated to the guest, in MiB.

Guest Storage Specification

--disk, --fiesystem --nodisks