Virt Install

Virt Install is a command line tool built on top of libvirt that facilitates installation of virtual machines.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Daniel Berrange
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Config-Record-1.1.2/lib/Config/Record.pod

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Virt Install is a command line tool built on top of libvirt that facilitates installation of virtual machines. Virt Install is a command line tool built on top of libvirt that facilitates installation of virtual machines. Virt Install project supports installation of fully-virtualized Xen guest machines for arbitrary operating systems and installation of Xen paravirtualized Fedora/RHEL operating systems.The tool takes care of fetching the guest kernels, creating file based disk images, and booting the guest operating system installer media.Requirements:· libvirtWhat's New in This Release:· When probing for OS distribution type, the tool now tests for the existence of files rather than fetching the entire file.· RFC-compliant NFS URIs are accepted and converted where needed.· When probing for Red Hat distribution variants, the "treeinfo" file is sought to determine initrd/kernel locations.· User friendly errors are shown instead of stack traces, and bogus libvirt error messages are hidden from the console.· A --noreboot flag was added to virt-install to prevent the automatic reboot at the end of install.· The libvirt capabilities XML is used to determine the guest types supported by a hypervisor.· A --force option was added to prevent any interactive prompting.


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