Headless install of Fedora 19

I need to do a headless install of fedora at work, and want to test the process at home first.
Approach is, use kvm/qemu on my ubuntu machine, and install fedora as a guest

virt-install \

 --name=guest1-fedora19-64 \

 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/guest1-fedora19-64.img,size=10 \

 --graphics none \

 --vcpus=1 --ram=2048 \

 --location=/home/steve/Downloads/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso \

 --network bridge=virbr0 \

 --os-type=linux \

 --os-variant=fedora16 \

 --extra-args="console=ttyS0,115200"

This works well, and anaconda gives me the choice of vnc or text based install

Trying text first -

Worked very smoothly.
After install, added tigervncserver, configured for lxde, disabled firewall, and was able to connect with vncviewer.


Reconnect after restart -

root@steve-GA-880GMA-UD2H:~# virsh list --inactive Id Name State ---------------------------------- - guest1-fedora19-64 shut off root@steve-GA-880GMA-UD2H:~# virsh start guest1-fedora19-64 Domain guest1-fedora19-64 started

root@steve-GA-880GMA-UD2H:~# virsh console guest1-fedora19-64

Connected to domain guest1-fedora19-64 Escape character is ^] [ 0.535212] 00:04: ttyS Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) Kernel 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 on an x86_64 (ttyS0) localhost login:

Then vnc via anaconda

Network was configured automatically

vnc worked fine

and vnc via qemu/kvm

apt-get install virt-viewer

virt-install \

 --name=guest2-fedora19-64 \

 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/guest2-fedora19-64.img,size=10 \

 --graphics vnc \

 --vcpus=1 --ram=2048 \

 --location=/home/steve/Downloads/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso \

 --network bridge=virbr0 \

 --os-type=linux \

 --os-variant=fedora16

Also went smoothly.

UEFI & GPT

The real hardware had some UEFI support, and this led to some extra issues. Enough for another post, later...