KVM virtualization – text only CentOS guest install
It took me a little while today to figure out how to do a text only install of a CentOS guest on KVM. Previously I had started the install using virt-install and then connected to the VNC console over SSH. This is a bit of a hassle though when all you want is a quick, text based install. So here’s how. Firstly all of my VMs live on LVM so create a virtual disk to hold the VM. I’m creating a 20G ‘partition’ in a volume group called kvm-storage. The logical volume is called host.demo.com.