Virt-manager: create vm
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Is it possible to create a vm (with virt-manager) but not have the install of the vm start?
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I'm not sure you can.
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Yeah, you can....
Be sure to check the "Customize Configuration before install" box.
After you hit Finish, it will take you to the screen where you can edit the VM properties.
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@dafyre Did you read the OP?
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@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
After you hit Finish, it will take you to the screen where you can edit the VM properties.
And your only choice, afaik, is to cancel the install or begin the install.
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@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
After you hit Finish, it will take you to the screen where you can edit the VM properties.
And your only choice, afaik, is to cancel the install or begin the install.
Yes, I read the OP. Make your changes, apply them, and then hit cancel installation. It does not destroy the VM. It leaves it sitting there, ready for you to boot to whatever installation media you choose.
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@dafyre That doesn't work, at least not in the the virt-manager version I have - 1.4.3. The VM is never created if you cancel the installation. Even if you do some changes and apply them and then cancel.
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@pete-s said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre That doesn't work, at least not in the the virt-manager version I have - 1.4.3. The VM is never created if you cancel the installation. Even if you do some changes and apply them and then cancel.
Uck, that's the same version I'm using. Thanks for the bad news.
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@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, I read the OP. Make your changes, apply them, and then hit cancel installation. It does not destroy the VM. It leaves it sitting there, ready for you to boot to whatever installation media you choose.
Not sure what version you are on, in v1.5.1, canceling the install = destroys the vm.
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@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, I read the OP. Make your changes, apply them, and then hit cancel installation. It does not destroy the VM. It leaves it sitting there, ready for you to boot to whatever installation media you choose.
Not sure what version you are on, in v1.5.1, canceling the install = destroys the vm.
Yeah, I just went back and did that myself a few minutes ago and the VM is gone... WTH did I do last time...
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@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, I read the OP. Make your changes, apply them, and then hit cancel installation. It does not destroy the VM. It leaves it sitting there, ready for you to boot to whatever installation media you choose.
Not sure what version you are on, in v1.5.1, canceling the install = destroys the vm.
Yeah, I just went back and did that myself a few minutes ago and the VM is gone... WTH did I do last time...
Don't go to bed till you figure it out & get back to us ASAP :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
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@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, I read the OP. Make your changes, apply them, and then hit cancel installation. It does not destroy the VM. It leaves it sitting there, ready for you to boot to whatever installation media you choose.
Not sure what version you are on, in v1.5.1, canceling the install = destroys the vm.
Yeah, I just went back and did that myself a few minutes ago and the VM is gone... WTH did I do last time...
Don't go to bed till you figure it out & get back to us ASAP :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Well, I did find one way to do it... Just not seamless.
Just go a head and tell it to begin the installation, and the Force Power Off the VM once it starts... but that makes more work for later (you have to go and set it to boot from the ISO image, and then pick your iso image again if you do it this way).
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@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@dafyre said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, I read the OP. Make your changes, apply them, and then hit cancel installation. It does not destroy the VM. It leaves it sitting there, ready for you to boot to whatever installation media you choose.
Not sure what version you are on, in v1.5.1, canceling the install = destroys the vm.
Yeah, I just went back and did that myself a few minutes ago and the VM is gone... WTH did I do last time...
Don't go to bed till you figure it out & get back to us ASAP :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Well, I did find one way to do it... Just not seamless.
Just go a head and tell it to begin the installation, and the Force Power Off the VM once it starts... but that makes more work for later (you have to go and set it to boot from the ISO image, and then pick your iso image again if you do it this way).
Yep, that's kinda what I do right now.
There has to be a cleaner/proper way? -
Any objections with using
virt-installandvirsh destroy VMName?I do something similar with Hyper-V.
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Using cockpit-machines, you can new VM and select the option to immediately start VM.
This is cockpit version 176.
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@black3dynamite can't see that picture at all.
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@dustinb3403 said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@black3dynamite can't see that picture at all.
Looks fine from Safari on my iPhone.
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I don't get what the problem is.
You create the VM, then you configure it after. -
@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
I don't get what the problem is.
You create the VM, then you configure it after.Just want to create the vm without starting the install.
