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...am using them. This time around though, I'd like to use the CLI approach. The problem resides in defining a storage space. This is using virt-install 1.5.1 on Xubuntu 18.04. For the occasion I created a new directory to store images. So I specify this new directory: virt-install \ --name=arch01 \ --disk path=/Share2/KVMImages/arch01.qcow2 \ --disk size=10 \ [ ... ] The above will not work as it reports: 'must be a file or a device, not a directory' So I specify a file: [ ... ] --disk path=/Share2/KVMImages/arch01.qcow2 \ --disk size=10 \ [ ... ] And it reports: 'Size mus...

..., I'd like to use the CLI approach. The problem > resides in defining a storage space. This is using virt-install 1.5.1 > on Xubuntu 18.04. > > For the occasion I created a new directory to store images. So I > specify this new directory: > > virt-install \ > --name=arch01 \ > --disk path=/Share2/KVMImages/arch01.qcow2 \ > --disk size=10 \ > [ ... ] > > The above will not work as it reports: > > 'must be a file or a device, not a directory' > > So I specify a file: > > [ ... ] > --disk path=/Share2/KVMImages/arch01.qcow...

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, jonetsu wrote: > And it reports: > > 'Size must be specified for non existent volume 'arch01.qcow2'' > > But the size is already specified as one of the options. At least the following works on Debian 10: virt-install \ --connect "qemu:///session" \ --name "debian10virt-install" \ --ram "1024" \ --vcpus "1" \ --disk "si...