Using virt-install to create a virtual machine

qemu_start.bash

#!/bin/bash
#
# based on https://gist.github.com/Manouchehri/2b1b523eed834f295915

set -e 

ISO_FILE=~/Downloads/archlinux-2021.10.01-x86_64.iso
DISK_FILE=archlinux.qcow2

if [[ ! -f ${ISO_FILE} ]]; then
  echo "ISO does not exist!"
  exit 1
fi

# create the disk if it does not exist
if [[ ! -f ${DISK_FILE} ]]; then
  qemu-img create -f qcow2 archlinux.qcow2 16G
fi

# start the machine
# to access, ssh -p 10022 localhost
qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -bios /usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64-code.bin \
  -enable-kvm \
  -smp cpus=4 \
  -m size=2048 \
  -cdrom ${ISO_FILE} \
  -drive file=${DISK_FILE},media=disk,if=virtio \
  -net user,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 \
  -net nic \
  -vga qxl