[et-mgmt-tools] Virt-Install options

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Jun 2 14:30:12 UTC 2008


Seale, Mark wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know if there is a method to specify different
> NIC models on startup or install of a guest OS?  I know Qemu and KVM are
> capable of it with the '-net nic,model=', but I wasn't sure if there is
> a way to do this when using virt-install.  Every OpenBSD VM I make is
> giving watchdog timeout errors for the NIC (re0)...
> 

No there currently is no cmdline switch to specify a nic model. Support
for specifying a nic model was recently added to libvirt, so it certainly
is something we could support for virt-install.

- Cole




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