kvm

KVM: Create Windows 7 VM

Virtio driver
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/deprecated-isos/stable/virtio-win-0.1-81.iso

Create VM

DISKIMG=win7.img
WIN7IMG=../iso/de_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676919.iso
VIRTIMG=../iso/virtio-win-0.1-81.iso
 
sudo qemu-system-x86_64 \
    --enable-kvm \
    -m 4096 \
    -smp cores=2 \
    -drive file=${DISKIMG},if=virtio \
    -net nic,model=virtio \
    -net user \
    -rtc base=localtime,clock=host \
    -usbdevice tablet \
    -soundhw ac97 \
    -cpu host \
    -vga std
 
    -vga qxl \
 
    -drive file=${VIRTIMG},index=3,media=cdrom \
    -cdrom ${WIN7IMG} \
 
    -vga vmware

cloud-image-utils

sudo apt install -y qemu-kvm cloud-image-utils
wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/release/ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

# cat seed
#cloud-config
password: ubuntu
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
ssh_import_id: ${USER}

cloud-localds seed.img seed
sudo kvm-spice -m 2048 -drive file=ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img,if=virtio,cache=writeback -cdrom seed.img -net nic,model=virtio -net user,hostfwd=tcp::222-:22
# -balloon virtio

# login credentials:
user: ubuntu
pass: ubuntu

ssh ubuntu@localhost:2222

qcow2

# create image file
qemu-img create -f qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/vm01.qcow2 25G

# create raw disk
chown libvirt-qemu.kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/vm01.qcow2
chmod 600 /var/lib/libvirt/images/vm01.qcow2

# shrink qcow image
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 image01.in.qcow image.01.out.qcow

# shrink qcow image with compression
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -c IN.qcow OUT.qcow

# convert
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.qcow2

# create image
qemu-img create disk.img -f qcow2 4G

virsh

Manpage
https://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh

# list all vms
virsh list --all

virt-install \
--name ubuntu1604 \
#--ram 2048 \
--disk path=./ubuntu1604.qcow2,size=8 \
--accelerate \
--vcpus 2, maxvcpus=3 \
--memory=1024, maxmemory=2048 \
--memballoon virtio \
#--vcpus 2 \
--os-type linux \
--os-variant generic \
--network bridge=virbr0 \
--graphics none \
--console pty, target_type=serial \
--location "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/installer-amd64/" \
--extra-args "console=ttyS0, 115200n8 serial"

virt-install \

Subscribe to kvm