PS: I missed to mention the virt-install command line. Here it is: virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n squeeze_x -r 1024 --os-variant=debiansqueeze -v -c /export/storage/isos/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso --disk path=/export/storage/squeeze_x.img,size=32 --vnc Regards Harri