Virt-install usage example

Building VMs with virt-install

The script that builds the VM:

#!/bin/bash

#####Setup up for the guest

host_name='vm-name'
user_name='your-username'
password='password'

distro='bionic'
virt_ram='1024'
disk_path='/var/lib/kvm'
disk_size=11
virt_cpu='2'

network_bridge="virbr0" # virbr0
ip_adress='192.168.11.36'
netmask='255.255.255.0'
gateway='192.168.11.1'
nameservers='192.168.11.1'

if [ -f preseed.cfg ]; then
        ##### Change variable into the preseed.cfg file
        sed -i "s|^d-i netcfg/get_hostname string.*|d-i netcfg/get_hostname string $host_name|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i netcfg/get_domain string.*|d-i netcfg/get_domain string $host_name|" preseed.cfg

        sed -i "s|^d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string.*|d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string $ip_adress|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i netcfg/get_netmask string.*|d-i netcfg/get_netmask string $netmask|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i netcfg/get_gateway string.*|d-i netcfg/get_gateway string $gateway|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string.*|d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string $nameservers|" preseed.cfg

        sed -i "s|^d-i passwd/user-fullname string.*|d-i passwd/user-fullname string $user_name|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i passwd/username string.*|d-i passwd/username string $user_name|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i passwd/user-password password.*|d-i passwd/user-password password $password|" preseed.cfg
        sed -i "s|^d-i passwd/user-password-again password.*|d-i passwd/user-password-again password $password|" preseed.cfg


        ##### Create folder where disk will be stored
        mkdir -p ${disk_path}/${host_name}

        #### Run virt-install command
        virt-install \
        --name $host_name \
        --ram $virt_ram \
        --disk path=${disk_path}/${host_name}/${host_name}.qcow2,size=${disk_size},format=qcow2,bus=virtio \
        --vcpus ${virt_cpu} \
        --os-type linux \
        --os-variant auto \
        --autostart \
        --network bridge=$network_bridge \
        --graphics none \
        --console pty,target_type=serial \
        --location "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${distro}/main/installer-amd64/" \
        --initrd-inject=preseed.cfg \
        --extra-args 'locale=en_US auto=true priority=critical console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial file=file:/preseed.cfg'
else
        echo "File preseed.cfg does not exist."
fi

preseed.cfg file can be found here.