Oracle Audio Technologies E10898-02 User Manual

virt-install

Oracle VM Server User’s Guide

Sets the guest as being a paravirtualized guest.

Sets the installation source for a paravirtualized guest, for example, nfs:host:/path, 
http://host/path, or ftp://host/path.

virt-install -lhttp://example.com/path

Sets the virtual network interface type for hardware virtualized guests. The netfront 
driver is a paravirtualized driver which can be used with a paravirtualized guest, or 
with a hardware virtualized guest with the proper paravirtualized drivers installed. 
The ioemu driver is a hardware virtualized driver, and can only be used with a 
hardware virtualized guest. Both drivers contain the device emulation code to support 
hardware virtualized guests.

For hardware virtualized guests, 

type

 can be either 

ioemu

 or 

netfront

. The default 

is 

ioemu

.

You cannot use this parameter for paravirtualized guests. For paravirtualized guests, 
the default is 

netfront

 and cannot be changed.

virt-install --vif-type=ioemu

Any additional arguments to pass to the installer with a paravirtualized guest.

Prints debugging information.