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virt-install
A-6 Oracle VM Server User's Guide
[-p | --paravirt]
Sets the guest as being a paravirtualized guest.
[-l location | --location= location ]
Sets the installation source for a paravirtualized guest, for example, nfs:host:/path,
http://host/path, or ftp://host/path.
# virt-install -lhttp://example.com/path
[--vif-type= type ]
Sets the virtual network interface type for hardware virtualized guests. The netfront
driver is a paravirtualized driver which can be used with a paravirtualized guest, or
with a hardware virtualized guest with the proper paravirtualized drivers installed.
The ioemu driver is a hardware virtualized driver, and can only be used with a
hardware virtualized guest. Both drivers contain the device emulation code to support
hardware virtualized guests.
For hardware virtualized guests,
type
can be either
ioemu
or
netfront
. The default
is
ioemu
.
You cannot use this parameter for paravirtualized guests. For paravirtualized guests,
the default is
netfront
and cannot be changed.
# virt-install --vif-type=ioemu
[[-x args | --extra-args= args ] ...]
Any additional arguments to pass to the installer with a paravirtualized guest.
[-d | --debug]
Prints debugging information.