On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:
The kvm-intel module is loaded and qemu-kvm is installed. Please point me to information on where/how to load a guest OS from a distribution DVD and how to set up qemu so it loads that quest OS when invoked.
As others have mentioned, the libvirt stuff is a great place to start. I've never installed Windows into KVM from an optical drive, but I have installed it from an ISO of the Windows DVD (produced by using dd). Here's a script that uses the virt-install tool:
virt-install \ --name="winguest" --ram="1024" --vcpus="1" \ --os-type="windows" --os-variant="winxp" \ --disk="path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/winguest.img,size=20" \ --cdrom="/usr/local/src/winxp-sp2.iso" \ --vnc --hvm --accelerateThe virt-manager tool also has some facilities for installing VMs, but I've always used virt-install.
-- Paul Heinlein [email protected] 45°38' N, 122°6' W
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