Installation guide

Installing guests with PXE

Figure 6.9. Virtual hardware configuration

After configuring the virtual machine's hardware, click Apply. virt-manager will then create the

guest with your specified hardware settings.

This concludes the general process for creating guests with virt-manager. Chapter 6, Virtualized

guest installation overview contains step-by-step instructions to installing a variety of common

operating systems.

6.4. Installing guests with PXE

This section covers the steps required to install guests with PXE. PXE guest installation requires a

shared network device, also known as a network bridge. The procedures below covers creating a

bridge and the steps required to utilize the bridge for PXE installation.

1. Create a new bridge

a. Create a new network script file in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory.

This example creates a file named ifcfg-installation which makes a bridge named

installation.

# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

# vim ifcfg-installation

DEVICE=installation