The following sequence of commands installs a Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest over NFS using the text installer:
# mount -F hsfs /rhel.iso /mnt # share -o ro /mnt # virt-install -n pv-rhel -r 1024 -l nfs:mydom0:/mnt \ --os-type=linux os-variant=rhel5.3 \ -f /dev/zvol/dsk/pv-rhel.zvol -p --nographics |
The following command installs a Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest using the media in the dom0 optical drive (CD-ROM/DVD) , utilizing the RedHat Linux version 5 kickstart feature to automate the installation process.
# virt-install \ --name rhat \ --ram 500 \ --file /dev/zvol/dsk/rhat.zvol \ --paravirt \ --location /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 \ --os-type=linux os-variant=rhel5 \ --extra-args "ks=/export/install/rhat/ks.cfg |
Because of a standard Linux restriction that PV guests cannot be installed from a CD, the CD must be mounted in a location (usually dom0) exported over NFS, and then an NFS Linux installation done. Often it is much easier to do an HTTP Linux install.