</table>
once invoked, will ask a number of questions before creating the guest system. The question are as follows:
* ''What is the name of your virtual machine?'' - The name by which the guest system will be referenced when managing and monitoring the system with other tools.
* ''How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)?'' - The amount of system memory to be made available to the guest operating system.
* ''What would you like to use as the disk (path)?'' - The path to the file or disk partition to be used to contain the guest operating system.
* ''Would you like to enable graphics support?'' (yes or no) - Defines whether the graphical installer is used or the text based installer in the shell.
* ''What is the install location?'' - The location of the installation files for the OS. This can be an ftp, nfs, http or local device location.
The following transcript shows a typical ''virt-install'' session:
<pre>
[root@localhost nas]# virt-install
What is the name of your virtual machine? virt-fedora
How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /home/nas/kvm-fedora2.img
How large would you like the disk (/home/nas/kvm-fedora2.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 1.5
Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location? /dev/sr0
Starting install...
Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 1.5 GB 00:00
Creating domain... 0 B 00:04
</pre>
== Running the KVM Virtual System ==
Once the guest system has been created, the QEMU screen will appear containing the operating system installer loaded form from the specified installation media:
[[Image:kvm_os_installer.jpg|KVM Guest Fedora Installer running in QEMU window]]
