Virsh

Create a KVM vm guest from cli

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-and-manage-kvm-virtual-machines-from-cli

Cheat Sheet

Domain Management

• List domains: #virsh list --all
• Undefine domains: #virst undefine

Volume Management

• List all volumes in pool 'default': #virsh vol-list default
• Delete a volume: #virsh vol-delete --pool default virt-10.img

Pools

• List pools: #virsh pool-list

Network management

• net-autostart network optional --disable
• net-list optional --inactive or --all
• net-start network
• dnsmasq reports problems: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtual_network_%27default%27_has_not_been_started

Network bridges

• Control with http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/using-bridged-networking-virt-manager

Other Projects

• https://github.com/goffinet/virt-scripts
• https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/v2.0.0rc1-tentative/compute/drivers/libvirt.html

Using Kick Start

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/ch04s06.html

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/kvm-install-centos-redhat-using-kickstart-ks-cfg/