Umm ... I think virsh is what you want, slthough I do not think you understand what I told you about KVM.
You will need to connect to the Debian installer somehow if you go that route, I am not familiar with it and I am not sure if you can simply boot the iso and then connect to the guest via ssh. For virsh, since I see your google is broken =) http://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/15/migrating-kvm-hosts-with-virsh/ http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2450/6n4o5me9j?a=view http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-9.04-p3 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Managing That should certainly get you started. As far as running KVM without X I suggest you read man qemu Or try this blog : http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/how-to-run-kvm-without-x/ with the -vnc flag you can run without X -vnc none or , since you are installing from an iso, -vnc :0 (or what have you) so you may connect to the installer from remote. Neither -vnc none or -vnc :0 require X at all on the (host) server or guest (you can connect via vnc to a minimal guest with no X installed on either host or guest). Happy reading =) On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Bodhi Zazen <bodhi.za...@montanalinux.org>wrote: > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Keith Edmunds" <k...@midnighthax.com> > To: et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:44:18 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: [et-mgmt-tools] Running virt-install without X > > New to list. I couldn't find a searchable archive of this ML, so > apologies if this has been asked before (feel free to flame me, but > please include a pointer to where I can find the answer). > > I've been looking at KVM virtualisation recently. I want to use it on a > hosted server without X installed, and I want to be able to create new > (Linux) guests from the command line. > > virt-install lets me kick off an installation, but everything I've tried > so far needs a graphical terminal of some sort to carry out the > text-based (Debian Lenny) installation. Once the installation is > complete, I can use 'virsh' to connect to the serial console and that > works fine. > > I suspect the key is in virt-install's '--nographics' option, but I > can't seem to connect to the console to carry out the installation > after using that option. Can anyone shed some light? > > (Just to be clear: I want to do everything via an ssh session, so no > VNC, etc). > > Thanks, > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools >
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