[libvirt-users] ESX VM from scratch

Paul Apostolescu apbogdan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 18:55:56 UTC 2015


Thanks, that works perfectly !

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> 2015-04-01 18:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Apostolescu <apbogdan at gmail.com>:
> > I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure
> > out how to create the disks -  the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can
> be
> > done or even if it's possible at all ?
>
> You can use the following virsh command:
>
> vol-create-as --pool ds --name test/disk.vmdk --capacity 10737418240
>
> This will create a 10 GB VMDK image named test/disk.vmdk in the
> datastore ds. You need to replace ds with the actual name of a
> datastore on your ESX server. You can get a list of the available
> datastores with the virsh command pool-list.
>
> --
> Matthias Bolte
> http://photron.blogspot.com
>
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