Nicolas Barcet Free zone of nijaba

Let's imagine that you have a server which is only accessible over ssh and want to install a virtual machine with kvm or qemu on it based on an Ubuntu server ISO or alternate CD. The logical way to perform this install would have normally been to use a VNC connection to perform the installation, but your machine is so far away that the latency renders this option almost unuseable. Here is a way to do this by redirecting the console output to the terminal and bypass the initial graphical boot screen. 

1.  Mount you iso as a loopack on /mnt
   

   #mount -o loop hardy-server-i386.iso /mnt

2. Create a new empty virtual disk image
   

   #qemu-img create -f qcow2 -c disk.qcow2 2G