Cockpit install vm centos 8?

[rgoldman]

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

[MartinR]

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".

[rgoldman]

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?

[MartinR]

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.