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I did not test them all. Always refer to the documentation of Virtual Machine Manager available for your environment prior to this article.

I am not sure what these options are. For more information about the GTK toolkit itself, see [10]. For more information about hypervisors, see [4]. For more information about URIs, see [11]. I am not sure what this output may consists of. This option is also mentioned in [6]. I am not sure what it actually means.

This option is also mentioned in [5] and [6]. For more information about virtual machines, see [12]. These menus, toolbars, windows, options and pieces of information are available when running Virtual Machine Manager as a graphical utility. This window most probably facilitates adding a connection to a hypervisor? For options available within this window, see below. Complete the installation and reboot.

Working with a Running Virtual Machine If you double-click on any machine in Virtual Machine Manager, a new window will open, with functions unique to that virtual machine. The desktop is accessed over a VNC connection to the guest. When you are "inside" the guest, the keyboard and mouse are "locked" to the guest. To release the keyboard and mouse, press the buttons Ctrl-Alt at the same time. I am guessing it wants you to connect via VNC or something which is not ideal.

Perhaps I have to specify a web url instead of an ISO image to --location , but I would prefer it if I could pass a local location in case the internet is not that great. Programster - I reported this issue to the virt-manager maintainers on their mailing list. You can follow that thread for more details. Knowing that this worked in Ubuntu I'm not sure when this will make it into the various virt-manager packages.

But you can grab the source and run virt-install from there. Note: you'll need to add some packages, and probably should create a Python virtual environment, so you might want to experiment on a VM before messing about with extra packages on a system you need to remain stable and clean.

After reading the --location section in the man pages for virt-install, it looks like one should still be able to use location to specify the path to an ISO image, it doesn't work for me. Luckily it gave some examples, of which there was this one listed for Ubuntu:. Using that worked for me so to get it to install Ubuntu I wish that I could install from a local mini. I came across the same issue as of this days, some of the previous answers help me find the way to do it.

The solution for me was found in the manual of virt-install about iso install, as I was using a net install iso it needed to specify additional kernel and initrd parameters indicating the path within the iso to find them.

Thanks to the --debug option I found the code of the installer to understand better what was happening. So finally the provisioning line ended being something like this:. The key here is the additional parameters on the location specifying vmlinuz as kernel and initrd. To find the path within the iso I've use it the isoinfo command as follows:. So I found them in the isolinux folder in this case. Additionally I've defined the disk for the cdrom device so I can access it while installing, but as in this case I was using the network repository I've defined the source as one of the mirrors for CentOS 7 through the text based installation menus.

Using location enables the extra-args so I can access it with text console for the whole installation process.



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