Had to write this down. I’ve been trying to get up and going with KVM recently. I got a break from school and need KVM up on my home server so I can experiment with many other things. I read through a bunch of the libvirt documentation, specifically about virt-install, and then once I had a grasp I ran through some tutorials. Most of the tutorials I found out there and virt-install one-liners had me using a network option as follows: