KVM : install CentOS 6.9 VM with zero touch by using kickstart

KVM host

$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" $ kvm --version QEMU emulator version 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

Here is a sample kickstart file for CentOS 6.9.

$ cat cent6.ks # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. #version=DEVEL install cdrom lang ja_JP.UTF-8 keyboard us network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 rootpw --plaintext password firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 selinux --disabled timezone --utc Asia/Tokyo bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=vda --append="console=ttyS0,115200n8 crashkernel=auto console=ttyS0,115200n8" # Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work clearpart --all --initlabel part / --fstype=ext4 --grow --asprimary --size=1 #repo --name="CentOS"  --baseurl=cdrom:sr0 --cost=100 %packages --nobase @Core @core %end

build a VM.

$ sudo virt-install  -n cent6-01 --memory 2048 -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/cent6-01.qcow2,size=20,format=qcow2,bus=virtio,cache=none --vcpus=1 --os-type linux --os-variant centos6.0 --location /home/hattori/ISO_images/CentOS-6.9-x86_64-minimal.iso --extra-args='ks=file:/cent6.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8' --keymap ja --initrd-inject ./cent6.ks --network=default,model=virtio --noautoconsole