This program provides a way to perform a fully-automated, noninteractive installation of certain Linux distributions onto virtual machines using virt-install.

No installation necessary. Just have ruby and virt-install installed. Also, cloud-image-utils is needed for cloud-localds to generate the ISO 9660 image containing the autoinstall configuration used by Ubuntu Server's installer, subiquity.

The --help output:

Usage: vm-install [options] PRESET
Install a new virtual machine (using virt-install(1)).

    -n, --name=NAME                  Name to call the new VM; default: same as PRESET
    -c, --config=CONFIG              config file to use; default: vm-install.yaml in the current directory
    -h, --help                       Show this help and exit
    -V, --version                    Output version information and exit

The "presets" are just predefined virt-install options. Presets are defined in a YAML configuration file, called vm-install.yaml by default.

Originally a fork of TaylorBurnham/debian-vm-install, this project was completely rewritten in commit 353c653f83.