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Creation of a new VM

All commands unless other wise noted are done though sudo

1. run vgdisplay should show something like..

[root@c002-h01-mb ~]# vgdisplay

– Volume group —

VG Name VolGroup00

System ID             
Format                lvm2
Metadata Areas        1
Metadata Sequence No  13
VG Access             read/write
VG Status             resizable
MAX LV                0
Cur LV                3
Open LV               3
Max PV                0
Cur PV                1
Act PV                1
VG Size               230.78 GB
PE Size               32.00 MB
Total PE              7385
Alloc PE / Size       2161 / 67.53 GB
Free  PE / Size       5224 / 163.25 GB
VG UUID               RUYkyT-T97Q-twgR-vemQ-nIPq-XHo3-U3HX1v

Free PE / Size 5224 / 163.25 GB Our current free space. We now need to cut a chunk out.

2. lvcreate -L50G -nSandbox VolGroup00 - This will give us a new 50G volume we can use for our new VM.

3. virt-manager (works with ssh -X ..)

4.