I would like to create my own base VM image to allow for faster provisioning of new VMs.
Right now, I'm creating a new and empty VM, inserting the distribution's ISO into it, and going through the whole installer. It takes me 20-30 minutes just to have a fresh machine installed.
Is it a matter of creating and installing the VM manually, and then once it's setup using the libvirt
tools to delete the MAC address, change hostname, etc? Or is there a better way to do it?
I'm using KVM/QEMU if that makes a difference, but I'd like to create base images that are vendor agnostic so the same image can run in VirtualBox etc.