Creating the KVM Virtual Machine from the terminal

To Create a KVM guest VM from command line.

I have an existing ISO directory at:
/myzpool/iso/

And I am storing the KVM at:
/myzpool/kvm

The command that creates the virtual machine is this:

 $ sudo virt-install --name server01debian10-server3 \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant Debian10 \ --ram 2048\ --disk /myzpool/kvm/debian10-server3.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=10,format=qcow2 \ --graphics none \ --noautoconsole \ --hvm \ --cdrom /iso/debian-10.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso \ --boot cdrom,hd 

Or

 virt-install --name=centos \ --memory=2048 --vcpus=1 \ --location=/myzpool/iso/debian-10.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso \ --disk /myzpool/kvm/debian10-server3.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=8 \ --network bridge:br0 \ --os-type=linux \ --nographics \ --extra-args='console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial' 

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