Virt-manager: create vm
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@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
So what's your goal with wanting to create a VM without starting it, to create some VMs you aren't going to use?
Correct, you as a Hyper-V user know we do it all the time in Hyper-V manager.
You can fully configure it in that window above. I've never created a VM in virt-manager that I didn't want turned on after finished configuring.
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@black3dynamite said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Using cockpit-machines, you can new VM and select the option to immediately start VM.
This is cockpit version 176.
That's what we use and we are definitely able to control if the VM starts or not on default Fedora 28.
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@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@black3dynamite said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Using cockpit-machines, you can new VM and select the option to immediately start VM.
This is cockpit version 176.That's what we use and we are definitely able to control if the VM starts or not on default Fedora 28.
He is not talking about the VM starting, but the installation starting after entering the config info.
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
So what's your goal with wanting to create a VM without starting it, to create some VMs you aren't going to use?
Correct, you as a Hyper-V user know we do it all the time in Hyper-V manager.
Yes, but WTF is the point? I never configure one then decide not to install it. Especially using a GUI to do it.
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@jaredbusch said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
So what's your goal with wanting to create a VM without starting it, to create some VMs you aren't going to use?
Correct, you as a Hyper-V user know we do it all the time in Hyper-V manager.
Yes, but WTF is the point? I never configure one then decide not to install it. Especially using a GUI to do it.
Hyper-V, KVM, whatever, I never create VMs that I don't plan on using. If I create a VM, it gets turned on 100% of the time after I install one.
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While I can agree it seems weird to want to setup a VM and not immediately start it, this doesn't sound that far out.
Set em up tonight, finish them tomorrow.
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@dustinb3403 said in Virt-manager: create vm:
While I can agree it seems weird to want to setup a VM and not immediately start it, this doesn't sound that far out.
Set em up tonight, finish them tomorrow.
Or save yourself 30 seconds and do it all tomorrow... it doesn't take long enough to configure a damn VM to split over two days. Seriously. 30 seconds to go through the Wizard and configure any additional settings is generous.
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@jaredbusch said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, but WTF is the point? I never configure one then decide not to install it. Especially using a GUI to do it.
@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Hyper-V, KVM, whatever, I never create VMs that I don't plan on using. If I create a VM, it gets turned on 100% of the time after I install one.
The point is you don't & I do.
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@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
The point is you don't & I do.
But you can get the same result by not creating a VM at all...
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@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@jaredbusch said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Yes, but WTF is the point? I never configure one then decide not to install it. Especially using a GUI to do it.
@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
Hyper-V, KVM, whatever, I never create VMs that I don't plan on using. If I create a VM, it gets turned on 100% of the time after I install one.
The point is you don't & I do.
Out of curiosity, what is the reasoning for creating an unused VM early? Stopping a VM that's been in production and holding it to fire up again I get. But making a new one, but not turning it on, I'm not thinking of the use case. Is it as capacity planning exercise where you want to reserve the capacity and have it all laid out prior to building the systems?
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When I build my "nested" 3 or 4 node oVirt clusters, I build one vm (with a couple of disks), start the install, force off the vm & then right-click & clone the vm 3 or 4 times. -
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@scottalanmiller
When I build my "nested" 3 or 4 node oVirt clusters, I build one vm (with a couple of disks), start the install, force off the vm & then right-click & clone the vm 3 or 4 times.Ah, so basically templating.
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@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@scottalanmiller
When I build my "nested" 3 or 4 node oVirt clusters, I build one vm (with a couple of disks), start the install, force off the vm & then right-click & clone the vm 3 or 4 times.Ah, so basically templating.
Correct.
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@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@scottalanmiller
When I build my "nested" 3 or 4 node oVirt clusters, I build one vm (with a couple of disks), start the install, force off the vm & then right-click & clone the vm 3 or 4 times.Ah, so basically templating.
But, that's what templates are for...
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@obsolesce said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@fateknollogee said in Virt-manager: create vm:
@scottalanmiller
When I build my "nested" 3 or 4 node oVirt clusters, I build one vm (with a couple of disks), start the install, force off the vm & then right-click & clone the vm 3 or 4 times.Ah, so basically templating.
But, that's what templates are for...
But he's creating his own custom templates.
The default templates that is provided is pretty basic. -
@black3dynamite forget it...
