[fedora-virt] F12: How to add VM with virt-manager?

[Paul Jenner]

Hi Sean, Tom.

On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 16:31 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:18:53 -0500
> sean darcy wrote:
> 
> > With virt-manager the dialog to install Create a new VM only allows
> > DVD, iso, ftp, etc. Not a local .qcow image.
> 
> I always just give it some random iso to make it happy, and
> then when it asks about disk image, use the pick existing
> disk option and browse local to point at the image.
> 
> Once it starts booting to do the "install", I just use force off,
> make sure the random iso image I gave it is no longer mounted,
> then boot from the disk.

For what it is worth, there is a RFE to support import of existing disk
images in virt-manager - Fedora bug #542829 [1].

There is also virt-install's --import option if you were not aware of
it.

Hope that helps,

Paul

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542829