Automating OS installations can save time and ensure consistency, especially when deploying multiple virtual machines. Kickstart is a tool from Red Hat that allows you to automate the installation of RHEL and its derivatives by providing a file with answers to all the installation prompts. In this guide, we’ll walk through a beginner-friendly step-by-step process to automate the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and CentOS Stream 9 on KVM using Kickstart. We assume you already have KVM (via libvirt/QEMU) installed and configured on your host system.
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