On 07/03/2013 08:05 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> it is also possible to do the provisioning of KVM images using
> virt-install, the debian installer, and a preseed file
>
> it has the advantage of enabling the fullpower of a debian presseed
> file, but maybe you lose the flexibility of a customer script
> (for instance I don't know if the Debian Installer allows you to instead
> a different bootloader than grub)
>
> This is the command I use to create my KVM images (tested on Debian 7.1)
>
> export OS=Debian7
>
> virt-install \
> --connect qemu:///system \
> --name ${OS} \
> --ram 512 \
> --vcpus 1 \
> --file /tmp/${OS}.img \
> --file-size=4 \
> --location
> http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/ \
> --virt-type kvm \
> --os-variant debianwheezy \
> --network bridge=br0 \
> --extra-args "auto=true hostname=${OS} domain=
> url=http://subsole.org/static/misc/debian-preseed.cfg text"
>
> You can optionally connect to the VM with
> virt-viewer -c qemu:///system Debian7
> and watch the show !
Hi,
This is interesting, thanks for sharing. Though I believe that my script
is more flexible than using the installer (I prefer using debootstrap
directly), and also will result in a much smaller image. It will also be
faster the way I do.
Thomas
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