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virt-install import existing disk

Virtualization · medium · solved in-browser (no VM needed) · 3 tiered hints

Write /home/player/import.sh: a virt-install command that boots an existing qcow2 image instead of installing. Use --name imported, --memory 1024, --vcpus 1, --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/disk.qcow2,format=qcow2, --import, and --os-variant ubuntu22.04. (Authored config, graded structurally - the engine isn't run here.) (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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