Installing Kali Linux (kali-linux-2022.4-installer-amd64.iso) using KVM virt-install tool
Mauricio Tavares
raubvogel at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 15:47:19 UTC 2023
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 10:32 AM Kaushal Shriyan
<kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install kali-linux-2022.4-installer-amd64.iso (https://www.kali.org/downloads/) using KVM virt-install tool
>
> #virt-install --name=kalilinux --file=/linuxkvmaddgbdisk/kalilinux.img --file-size=50 --nonsparse --vcpu=2 --ram=4096 --network=bridge:br0 --os-type=linux --os-variant=debian9 --graphics none --location=/linuxkvmaddgbdisk/kali-linux-2022.4-installer-amd64.iso --extra-args="console=ttyS0
>
> Starting install...
> Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 0 B 00:00:00
> Retrieving file content... | 0 B 00:00:00
> Retrieving file info... | 104 B 00:00:00
> Retrieving file info... | 104 B 00:00:00
> Retrieving file info... | 104 B 00:00:00
> ERROR Could not find an installable distribution at '/linuxkvmaddgbdisk/kali-linux-2022.4-installer-amd64.iso': The URL could not be accessed, maybe you mistyped?
>
> The location must be the root directory of an install tree.
> See virt-install man page for various distro examples.
> Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
> If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
> virsh --connect qemu:///system start kalilinux
> otherwise, please restart y
>
> #virt-install --name=kalilinux --file=/linuxkvmaddgbdisk/kalilinux.img --file-size=50 --nonsparse --vcpu=2 --ram=4096 --network=bridge:br0 --os-type=linux --os-variant=debian9 --graphics none --cdrom=/linuxkvmaddgbdisk/kali-linux-2022.4-installer-amd64.iso --extra-args="console=ttyS0"
> ERROR --extra-args only work if specified with --location. See the man page for examples of using --location with CDROM media
>
That is very similar to what I use. Have you tried without
extra-args, maybe setting vnc for now?
> # osinfo-query os | grep -i debian
> debian1.1 | Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 | 1.1 | http://debian.org/debian/1.1
> debian1.2 | Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 | 1.2 | http://debian.org/debian/1.2
> debian1.3 | Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 | 1.3 | http://debian.org/debian/1.3
> debian10 | Debian 10 | 10 | http://debian.org/debian/10
> debian11 | Debian 11 | 11 | http://debian.org/debian/11
> debian2.0 | Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 | 2.0 | http://debian.org/debian/2.0
> debian2.1 | Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 | 2.1 | http://debian.org/debian/2.1
> debian2.2 | Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 | 2.2 | http://debian.org/debian/2.2
> debian3 | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 | 3.0 | http://debian.org/debian/3
> debian3.1 | Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 | 3.1 | http://debian.org/debian/3.1
> debian4 | Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 | 4.0 | http://debian.org/debian/4
> debian5 | Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 | 5.0 | http://debian.org/debian/5
> debian6 | Debian 6.0 | 6.0 | http://debian.org/debian/6
> debian7 | Debian 7 | 7 | http://debian.org/debian/7
> debian8 | Debian 8 | 8 | http://debian.org/debian/8
> debian9 | Debian 9 | 9 | http://debian.org/debian/9
> debiantesting | Debian testing | testing | http://debian.org/debian/testing
> #
>
> I did not find kali OS details to provide an option for --os-variant= When I ran osinfo-query os | grep kali. It did not return anything.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kaushal
More information about the libvirt-users
mailing list