[CentOS-virt] create a guest
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Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest
On 01/16/2013 12:45 PM, mattias wrote: can i create a guest with libvirt and use an existing disc with freebsd? Yes. The 'virt-manager' application will let you use a disc in a drive as installation media. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest
i not use a desktop os windows on my desktop centos minimal on the server - Original Message - From: Digimer li...@alteeve.ca To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest On 01/16/2013 12:45 PM, mattias wrote: can i create a guest with libvirt and use an existing disc with freebsd? Yes. The 'virt-manager' application will let you use a disc in a drive as installation media. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] create a guest
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Then you can use virt-install, but you will need to setup a VNC connection to the host in order to see the new VM and finish the install. If you're new to this, I'd strongly recommend installing the CentOS desktop and using virt-manager until you get used to it though. On 01/16/2013 12:49 PM, mattias wrote: i not use a desktop os windows on my desktop centos minimal on the server - Original Message - From: Digimer li...@alteeve.ca To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest On 01/16/2013 12:45 PM, mattias wrote: can i create a guest with libvirt and use an existing disc with freebsd? Yes. The 'virt-manager' application will let you use a disc in a drive as installation media. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] create a guest
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Probably the easiest way would be to use a centos vm to connect via virt-manager or you can look into the man's of virt-install? you could also forware x via ssh to your pc and start it on the server. Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2013, 13:00 -0500 schrieb Digimer: Then you can use virt-install, but you will need to setup a VNC connection to the host in order to see the new VM and finish the install. If you're new to this, I'd strongly recommend installing the CentOS desktop and using virt-manager until you get used to it though. On 01/16/2013 12:49 PM, mattias wrote: i not use a desktop os windows on my desktop centos minimal on the server - Original Message - From: Digimer li...@alteeve.ca To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest On 01/16/2013 12:45 PM, mattias wrote: can i create a guest with libvirt and use an existing disc with freebsd? Yes. The 'virt-manager' application will let you use a disc in a drive as installation media. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -- I'm using PGP to sign my messages and attachments. That's why there is a file named signature.asc is attached to all e-mails. If you don't use PGP, you can ignore this file. Ich verwende PGP, um meine E-Mails und Anhänge zu signieren. Aus diesem Grund ist dieser E-Mail eine Datei mit dem Namen signature.asc angehängt. Falls Du kein PGP nutzt, solltest du diese Datei einfach ignorieren. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest
On 01/16/2013 07:26 PM, mattias wrote:
but i allredy have the freebsd disc image file on the server
You may just create a logical volume, use dd(1) to transfer its contents
onto the lv and use this.
Done that several times, works like a charm.
HTH,
Timo
PS: Please avoid top posting.
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From: Scott Dowdle dow...@montanalinux.org
To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@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,
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Scott Dowdle
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Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest
Greetings, - Original Message - but i allredy have the freebsd disc image file on the server DUH... I thought you were saying you had a disc or disc image of the FreeBSD install media. You already have a FreeBSD VM disk image? In that case, what is it from? Is it a KVM VM or did it come from some other virt platform like VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels, Xen or what? You may run into an issue with drivers if it came from another virt platform that uses product specific tools (like VMware tools for example)... where to make it work correctly you have to remove their tools. This is probably less of an issue with a FreeBSD VM though. There is also v2v which supposedly can convert a disk image of a VM from one product format to another. I haven't used it. There should be good documentation for v2v if you do a search. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest
stacklet.com kvm image - Original Message - From: Scott Dowdle dow...@montanalinux.org To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest Greetings, - Original Message - but i allredy have the freebsd disc image file on the server DUH... I thought you were saying you had a disc or disc image of the FreeBSD install media. You already have a FreeBSD VM disk image? In that case, what is it from? Is it a KVM VM or did it come from some other virt platform like VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels, Xen or what? You may run into an issue with drivers if it came from another virt platform that uses product specific tools (like VMware tools for example)... where to make it work correctly you have to remove their tools. This is probably less of an issue with a FreeBSD VM though. There is also v2v which supposedly can convert a disk image of a VM from one product format to another. I haven't used it. There should be good documentation for v2v if you do a search. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest
Greetings, - Original Message - stacklet.com kvm image In that case, what I would do would be to create a new VM with virt-manager but use the disk image file provided. That will basically create /etc/libvirt/qemu/whatever.xml where whatever is the name you gave the VM in virt-manager. Then you can use virt-manager to start, stop, console connect etc... or you can use virsh from the command line. BTW, if the VM is to have a public IP address then you want to setup a bridge device if you don't already have one, and associate the VM with that when you create it. If it is going to use a private IP address, then you can just use the default NAT. KVM is a little complicated to get going with but the effort is definitely worth it. And again, there is good documentation if you do a few searches. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
