[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 31/66: builder: Suggest using virt-install --os-variant option in virt-builder man page.

[Hilko Bengen]

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commit 5646fe28ec81e87df7373b995b2f962629a85b08
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 16 20:09:39 2014 +0100

    builder: Suggest using virt-install --os-variant option in virt-builder man page.
    
    (cherry picked from commit 9515345bbdd81d9c8eb72f09207a4c090ea56d2c)
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 builder/virt-builder.pod | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builder/virt-builder.pod b/builder/virt-builder.pod
index 65cb348..3941394 100644
--- a/builder/virt-builder.pod
+++ b/builder/virt-builder.pod
@@ -815,7 +815,8 @@ Import the disk image into libvirt using L<virt-install(1)>
 I<--import> option.
 
  virt-install --import \
-   --name guest --ram 2048 --disk path=disk.img,format=raw
+   --name guest --ram 2048 \
+   --disk path=disk.img,format=raw --os-variant fedora20
 
 Notes:
 
@@ -828,6 +829,14 @@ you used virt-builder's I<--format> option.
 
 =item 2.
 
+I<--os-variant> is highly recommended, because it will present optimum
+devices to enable the guest to run most efficiently.  To get a list
+of all variants, do:
+
+ virt-install --os-variant list
+
+=item 3.
+
 You can run virt-install as root or non-root.  Each works slightly
 differently because libvirt manages a different set of virtual
 machines for each user.  In particular virt-manager normally shows the

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