On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 7:29 AM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running the below command to spawn the KVM based VM instance. > > #virt-install --name=openmonitoringdistributionlabs > --file=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/images/openmonitoringdistributionlabs.img > --file-size=100 --nonsparse --vcpu=2 --ram=6096 --network=bridge:br0 > --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel7 --graphics none > --location=/linuxkvmguestosdisk/var/lib/libvirt/isos/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2003.iso > --extra-args="console=ttyS0" > Is there a way to provide the below settings in the command line instead of > manually setting 2) Time settings 3) Installation source 4) Software > selection 5) Installation Destination 8) Root password 9) User creation? > > Installation > > 1) [x] Language settings 2) [!] Time settings > (English (United States)) (Timezone is not set.) > 3) [!] Installation source 4) [!] Software selection > (Processing...) (Processing...) > 5) [!] Installation Destination 6) [x] Kdump > (No disks selected) (Kdump is enabled) > 7) [ ] Network configuration 8) [!] Root password > (Not connected) (Password is not set.) > 9) [!] User creation > (No user will be created) > Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation > | > 'r' to refresh]: > > Is there a way to automate KVM VM instance creation as per the above > virt-install command using Ansible for example or any automation tool? > Please suggest. Thanks in advance and i look forward to hearing from you. > > Best Regards, > > Kaushal >
No. For that you can create your own kickstart file and pass it via command line as described here: # virt-install \ --name guest1-rhel7 \ --memory 2048 \ --vcpus 2 \ --disk size=8 \ --location http://example.com/path/to/os \ --os-variant rhel7 \ --initrd-inject /path/to/ks.cfg \ --extra-args="ks=file:/ks.cfg console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8" Or, if you have a new enough version of virt-install, you can use: # virt-install --install centos7.0 --unattended profile={desktop|jeos),admin-password-file=/path/to/admin/password/file,user-password-file=/path/to/user/password/file This second option will rely on the libosinfo project to get the optimal values for memory, vcpus, disk size, os-variant, etc. Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio
