This page describes the basics of the virtual machine lifecycle. Its aim is to provide fundamental information to create, run, stop, migrate and delete a virtual machines in one page.
Network booting is cool. Once you have setup everything you can stop juggling iso images in your virtual machine configs. Instead you just kick a network boot and pick whatever you want install from the boot menu delivered by the boot server.
This article is not about the basics of setting up a boot server. The internet has tons of tutorials on how to install a tftp server and how to boot your favorite OS from tftp. This article will focus on configuring network boot for libvirt-managed virtual machines.
Simple yet Powerful Turnkey Solution to Build Clouds and Manage Data Center Virtualization