I made a couple machines like this last year. Why on earth did I add "os-variant=fedora10"? Can't remember.
I had issues mixing libvirt and VMware. I ran into some odd SSL errors, and the machines couldn't see each other. I didn't get to the bottom of those problems. HOST=esxi7-1 OS_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST.qcow2 DATASTORE_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST-datastore.qcow2 INSTALL_ISO=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2-17630552.x86_64.iso IF1_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:10 IF2_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:11 HOST=esxi7-2 OS_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST.qcow2 DATASTORE_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST-datastore.qcow2 INSTALL_ISO=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2-17630552.x86_64.iso IF1_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:12 IF2_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:13 virt-install \ --name="$HOST" \ --vcpus=8 \ --ram=20480 \ --cpu host-passthrough \ --disk path=$OS_DISK,size=20,bus=sata \ --disk path=$DATASTORE_DISK,size=200,bus=sata \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant=fedora10 \ --network network=pubbr0,mac=$IF1_MAC,model=e1000e \ --network network=privbr0,mac=$IF2_MAC,model=e1000e \ --boot uefi,menu=on,cdrom,hd \ --graphics vnc \ --video qxl \ --cdrom $INSTALL_ISO \ --noautoconsole \ --features kvm_hidden=on \ --machine q35 On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:58 AM Martin Kletzander <mklet...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 09:45:37PM +0200, Gunnar wrote: > >I am trying to install esxi7 inside a KVM machine > > > > virt-install --name=esxi7 \ > > --vcpus=2 \ > > --memory=4096 \ > > > --cdrom=/home/username/isos/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2a-17867351.x86_64.iso > > \ > > --disk size=33 \ > > --os-variant=unknown > > > >the installation process starts but does not get fails with a "No > >network adapters" error. This does not happen with other VM's. > >What do I have to add to above command in order to attach the default > >network adapter to the machine? > > > > First look if the machine has any network interface. If it does, the > guest OS probably does not support the model, so you can change that. > If it does not have one, then you probably want to use '--network > network=default' in your virt-install command and you can always look > that up in the man page as well (e.g. man virt-install). > > >or is there any other trick I have to be aware of when it comes to > >installing ESXi > > > > No idea as I have never installed anything like that. > > >thx ... Gunnar > > Hope that helped, > Martin >
