download centos7 iso move iso to /var/lib/libvirt/boot ## prepare centos 7 kickstart file insert below line to standard kickstart file, to setup console mode for kickstart, %post –logfile=/root/grubby.log /sbin/grubby –update-kernel=ALL –args=”console=ttyS0″ %end create vm from iso + ks virt-install –name testvm-ks \ –nographics \ –location /var/lib/libvirt/boot/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso \ –initrd-inject /root/centos7-ks.cfg \ …
generate qcow2 base image virt-builder centos-7.6 \ –format qcow2 \ –size 20G -o /var/lib/libvist/boot/centos-7.6-20G.qcow2 verified type of disk is qcow2 by qemu-img info /var/lib/libvist/boot/centos-7.6-20G.qcow2 will use this base image as template for future vm quick launch. clone base image disk to vm disk cp /var/lib/libvist/boot/centos-7.6-20G.qcow2 /var/lib/libvist/images/testvm.qcow2 create vm testvm by …
libvirtd down after upgrade [root@tripleo ~]# systemctl status libvirtd.service ● libvirtd.service – Virtualization daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Sat 2018-12-15 11:10:40 EST; 10s ago Docs: man:libvirtd(8) https://libvirt.org Process: 2507 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $LIBVIRTD_ARGS (code=exited, status=3) Main PID: 2507 (code=exited, status=3) Tasks: 2 (limit: 32768) …
highlight steps to expand disk for vmware vm delete snapshot expand to 100GB create partition for new expanded disk add expended disk to root logical group expand disk in vmware the expand disk is default feature in vmware, you need to delete snapshot before expand. The Expand button is under …