I'm looking into ways of installing/deploying a VM completely automated (no user interaction). So far I have tried QEMU and virt-install along with QEMU. The issue with qemu is that injecting kickstart file has to be injected manually. On the other hand injecting kickstart file using virt-install is piece of cake, but I cannot use and ISO in that case for installation.
My requirement is to create a VM image using ISO image of the OS, completely automatic. Is there a way to accomplish this without sacrificing the simplicity of the solution.
When I issued the following command installer was downloading content from internet.
virt-install
--connect=qemu:///system \
--network user \
--name=PathBreaker \
--disk path=/home/h/pathbreaker.img,format=raw \
--ram 256 \
--check-cpu \
--hvm \
--arch x86_64 \
--accelerate \
--graphics none \
--os-type=linux
--extra-args='ks=file:/ks.cfg console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' \
--location=/home/h/ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso \
--initrd-inject=/var/tmp/ks.cfg \
And here is my ks.cfg file content
#System language
lang en_US
#Language modules to install
langsupport en_US
#System keyboard
keyboard us
#System mouse
mouse
#System timezone
timezone Asia/Kolkata
#Root password
rootpw --disabled
#Initial user
user h --fullname "harish" --iscrypted --password $1$JmYT2jzn$fyG3gntLTLQbhPFek0SFK1
#Reboot after installation
reboot
#Use text mode install
text
#Install OS instead of upgrade
install
#Use CDROM installation media
cdrom
#System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr
#Clear the Master Boot Record
zerombr yes
#Partition clearing information
clearpart --all
#Disk partitioning information
part / --fstype ext4 --size 3700 --grow
part swap --size 200
#System authorization infomation
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
#Firewall configuration
firewall --enabled --ssh
#Do not configure the X Window System
skipx
