CentOS 5.5 KVM

Installing a virtual machine

virt-install \

-n [instance_name] \

-r 1024 \

--vcpus=2 \

--os-variant=rhel5 \

-v \

--accelerate \

-c /var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso \

-w bridge:br0 \

-vnc : \

--disk path=/vm/[instance_name].img,size=50

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

comment out BOOTPROTO

Add BRIDGE=br0

Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0

The content should be:

DEVICE=br0

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

TYPE=Bridge