Minimal kickstart installation locally kickstart file keyboard fi lang en_US.UTF-8 timezone --utc Europe/Helsinki zerombr install reboot ignoredisk --only-use=vda clearpart --drive=vda --initlabel part /boot --asprimary --fstype="ext4" --size=200 part swap --size=2000 part / --size=1 --fstype="ext4" --grow bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="elevator=deadline" %packages @core @base %end How to use virt-install \ --name test \ --ram 2048 \ --os-variant rhel6 \ --disk path=/srv/libvirt/images2/test.img,size=40 \ --network bridge=br0 \ --network bridge=br1 \ --location http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/6/os/x86_64/ \ --initrd-inject=/root/ks.cfg \ --extra-args "ks=file:/ks.cfg console=ttyS0"