Oracle Audio Technologies E10898-02 User Manual

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virt-install

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Oracle VM Server User's Guide

[-p | --paravirt]

Sets the guest as being a paravirtualized guest.

[-llocation | --location=location]

Sets the installation source for a paravirtualized guest, for example, nfs:host:/path,
http://host/path, or ftp://host/path.

# virt-install -lhttp://example.com/path

[--vif-type=type]

Sets the virtual network interface type for hardware virtualized guests. The netfront
driver is a paravirtualized driver which can be used with a paravirtualized guest, or
with a hardware virtualized guest with the proper paravirtualized drivers installed.
The ioemu driver is a hardware virtualized driver, and can only be used with a
hardware virtualized guest. Both drivers contain the device emulation code to support
hardware virtualized guests.

For hardware virtualized guests,

type

can be either

ioemu

or

netfront

. The default

is

ioemu

.

You cannot use this parameter for paravirtualized guests. For paravirtualized guests,
the default is

netfront

and cannot be changed.

# virt-install --vif-type=ioemu

[[-xargs | --extra-args=args] ...]

Any additional arguments to pass to the installer with a paravirtualized guest.

[-d | --debug]

Prints debugging information.

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