Hi Sean, Tom. On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 16:31 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:18:53 -0500 > sean darcy wrote: > > > With virt-manager the dialog to install Create a new VM only allows > > DVD, iso, ftp, etc. Not a local .qcow image. > > I always just give it some random iso to make it happy, and > then when it asks about disk image, use the pick existing > disk option and browse local to point at the image. > > Once it starts booting to do the "install", I just use force off, > make sure the random iso image I gave it is no longer mounted, > then boot from the disk.
For what it is worth, there is a RFE to support import of existing disk images in virt-manager - Fedora bug #542829 [1]. There is also virt-install's --import option if you were not aware of it. Hope that helps, Paul [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542829 _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
