debian-fai-libvirt

Fully automated Debian installation on libvirt/QEMU/KVM.

• create KVM virtual machine using virt-manager's virt-install(1)
• minimal, preseeded Debian installation
• initrd based, all required files injected into initrd
• no ISOs required, no additional HTTP server required
• adjustable build configuration in src/config.tt2

Supported Debian versions

• Debian 8.10 "jessie"

Usage

Requirements

• git and HTTPS access to https://github.com/vifo/debian-fai-libvirt
• QEMU/KVM up-and-running

Installation

Clone this repository with git:

git clone https://github.com/vifo/debian-fai-libvirt
cd "debian-fai-libvirt"

Check/adjust settings in src/config.tt2 and run virtual machine installation with:

make vm

make targets

• build

  Populate build directory build/ with templated files from src/

• vm

  Run virtual machine installation with build/fai.sh install

• sparsify

  Create a shrinked/compressed image of VM in build/

• doc

  Update README.md

• clean

  Remove build directory build/

• distclean

  In addition to clean wipe any generated VMs with virsh destroy/undefine

Links

• Installing Debian 8.10
• Libvirt FAQ
• virt-manager

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE for details.