Usbdk is a driver that is able to install and uninstall Windows USB drivers in guest virtual machines. Installing usbdk requires Administrator privileges. Note that the previously supported USB Clerk option has been deprecated and is no longer supported.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Virt-Install Virt-install is part of the, a RedHat project to create, install and manage virtual machines such as, for instance Xen DomUs or KVM guests. Virt-install has two modes of installation: • graphical, by using VNC, where you get the normal install experience. This is usually used if for local installs, i.e., installing a guest while being in front of the host machine; • text-based, by using the emulated serial port, where you get the console-mode installation experience. This is normally done for installing a guest on a remote systems (e.g., reached via SSH). NOTE: in this example we will install a Fedora 16 DomU onto a Fedora 17 Dom0. However, the same technique should work for installing Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, as well as other (not necessarily RH-based) distros as DomUs.

Preparing for the Installation Getting virt-install This is very easy. On a Fedora Dom0, just run the following and let yum do his job: yum install libvirt python-virtinst If Dom0 is not Fedora(-ish), it shouldn't be a bit deal. It is all just a matter of finding out the package names your favorite distro ships virt-install with. Preparing Partitions Let's now create a new logical volume to be used as the virtual disk for the DomU. Sun moon emulator machine.

We will create a 20GB logical volume named 'f16' inside the volume group called 'vg_f17'. As such, the install location will be /dev/vg_f17/f16: # lvcreate -nf16 -L20G /dev/vg_f17 Logical volume 'f16' created To double check everything went fine: # lvscan. ACTIVE '/dev/vg_f17/f16' [20.00 GiB] inherit. Starting a Graphical Install There are 2 possible ways of doing a graphical install: • Using virt-viewer on Dom0 to display the graphical console. Use this if you are right in front of Dom0 itself.

• Using VNC viewer to connect to the graphical console. Use this if you are away from Dom0, e.g., you are connecting to it via SSH.

Local Graphical Install Start the DomU installation with: virt-install --paravirt --name f16 --ram 768 --vcpus 1 -f /dev/vg_f17/f16 --network bridge=br0 --location For more information on what each parameter does, refer to the. After you run virt-install, something like this should appear: Starting install. Retrieving file.treeinfo. 2.8 kB 00:00. Retrieving file vmlinuz. 6.7 MB 00:02.

Retrieving file initrd.img. 74 MB 00:01. Creating domain. 0 B 00:01 And then, as soon as the installer files have been downloaded, the graphical phase of the Fedora installer should start. From there, you can install Fedora as usual. NOTE: with X11 forwarding configured properly, you can do this on a remote system as well. If you're using Windows, you can follow to get X11 forwarding setup. On Linux and Mac, X11 forwarding should automatically work when you connect to Dom0 with: ssh -X Dom0-hostname Remote Graphical Install This step only involves getting a VNC client on your system, followed by changing the virt-install command.