CentOS

So I'm new to Cockpit and relatively new to KVM. But when you create a new vm in cockpit, you can't select Cent OS 8, what should I use for this?

Thanks

Typically you need to download the CentOS8 ISO (from http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8/ ... 4-dvd1.iso) to somewhere on your computer. When you try to create a VM from cockpit, select "Local Install Media" for the "Installation Source Type", then put the full path to the ISO you downloaded in as the "Installation Source".

Understand that no problem. But at the bottom it asks for OS vendor or name. I selected Linux/cent os and there is a 7 and 6 option but not 8.

I posted another thread where I’m having reboot/shutdown issues and I’m wondering if this is related, I just chose “unspecified”.

But either way I can’t use it if it won’t allow the VMs to shutdown/reboot properly. Is KVM still being developed?

In the past most of my installs have been by virtmanager, or else off the command line. I've just done the following:

• Downloaded the latest ISO
• Run Create VM changing:
  • Name to "Test"
  • Installation source to "/virt/ISOs/CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso"
  • Size to 20 GiB
  • Memory to 4 GiB
  and leave the Vendor & OS fields alone as "unspecified"
• Install and allow it to run as far as the "Welcome to CentOS Linux 8" screen
• Quit and delete the instance since I already have a C8 VM.