Tumbleweed updates continuously, manual interactive installations frequently break due to rapid package, installer (Agama), or kernel shifts. Unattended automation ensures predictable, reproducible, and verifiable states for disaster recovery and testing.
• Mitigating Rolling-Release Fluctuation: Tumbleweed moves extremely fast. An unattended deployment via structured templates (profile.json) ensures that the initial bootstrap bypasses manual package selection errors and unpredictable installer UI changes.
• Disaster Recovery Validation Loop: For continuous integration or automated DR testing, environments must be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Unattended installation scripts (using virt-install) allow you to programmatically verify that guest configurations, volume management definitions, and baseline application profiles work under the latest upstream packages without human intervention. (*)
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The sample of profile.json file ( generated via Agama Web UI )
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boris@localhost:~/Downloads> cat profile.json
{
"product": {
"id": "Tumbleweed"
},
"software": {
"patterns": {
"add": [
"kvm_tools",
"kde",
"cockpit",
"selinux"
],
"remove": [
"office"
]
}
},
"storage": {
"boot": {
"configure": true
},
"drives": [
{
"partitions": [
{
"filesystem": {
"mountOptions": [],
"path": "/boot/efi",
"reuseIfPossible": false,
"type": "vfat"
},
"id": "esp",
"size": {
"max": 1000000000,
"min": 1000000000
}
},
{
"filesystem": {
"mountOptions": [],
"path": "/boot",
"reuseIfPossible": false,
"type": "ext4"
},
"size": {
"max": 2500000000,
"min": 2500000000
}
},
{
"filesystem": {
"mountOptions": [],
"path": "/",
"reuseIfPossible": false,
"type": {
"btrfs": {
"snapshots": true
}
}
},
"size": {
"max": 55000000000,
"min": 55000000000
}
},
{
"filesystem": {
"mountOptions": [],
"path": "/opt",
"reuseIfPossible": false,
"type": "xfs"
},
"size": {
"max": 67000000000,
"min": 67000000000
}
},
{
"delete": true,
"search": {
"ifNotFound": "skip"
}
}
],
"search": {
"condition": {
"name": "/dev/vda"
},
"ifNotFound": "error"
}
}
],
"mdRaids": [],
"volumeGroups": []
},
"user": {
"fullName": "boris",
"password": "***********",
"hashedPassword": false,
"userName": "boris",
"sshPublicKeys": []
},
"root": {
"password": "************",
"hashedPassword": false,
"sshPublicKeys": [
"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIK+XwCy1t95wJD0eErIpkeeXc9qGN/rwX1hAkEKJoOGQ name@example.com"
]
}
Python3 -m http.server 8080 --bind 192.168.0.23 starts a basic local web server that shares the files in your current working directory over the network. Port 8080 been opened requires some additional tuning (*)
$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=trusted --remove-interface=bridge0 --permanent
OR if you added the port explicitly to a public/home zone:
$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --remove-port=8080/tcp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --reload
boris@localhost:~/Downloads> python3 -m http.server 8080 --bind 192.168.0.23 Serving HTTP on 192.168.0.23 port 8080 (http://192.168.0.23:8080/) ...
192.168.0.51 - - [09/Nov/2026 08:25:19] "GET /profile.json HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Virt-install command line for unattended deploying Tumbleweed KVM Guest (*)
#!/bin/bash
virt-install \
--name tw-unattended-Guest03 \
--memory 10000 \
--vcpus 4 \
--osinfo opensusetumbleweed \
--disk pool=default,size=125,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 \
--network bridge=bridge0,model=virtio \
--graphics vnc,listen=127.0.0.1 \
--location /home/boris/Downloads/agama-installer.x86_64-25.0.0-openSUSE-Build8.23.iso,kernel=boot/x86_64/loader/linux,initrd=boot/x86_64/loader/initrd \
--extra-args "inst.auto=http://192.168.0.23:8080/profile.json"
Virt-install Guest startup and Guest's Console
localhost:~ # ./virtInst03.sh
WARNING No display detected. Not running virt-viewer.
WARNING No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1
Starting install...
Retrieving 'linux' | 17 MB 00:00:00
Retrieving 'initrd' | 128 MB 00:00:00
Allocating 'tw-unattended-Guest03.qcow2' | 00:00:00
Creating domain...
Domain is still running. Installation may be in progress.
Waiting for the installation to complete.
Domain has shutdown. Continuing.
Domain creation completed.
Restarting guest.
(*) Enabling audio via switching to Spice Console
Inside VM issue
#1. Access the guest OS command line to spin up the virtualization channels
$ sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
$ sudo systemctl start spice-vdagentd
# 2. Verify the active background execution status of both services
$ sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent spice-vdagentd
Shutdown VM and update XML-profile as follows
$ sudo EDITOR=nano virsh edit tw-unattended-guest01
<sound model='ich9'>
<audio id='1'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1b' function='0x0'/>
</sound>
<audio id='1' type='spice'/>
Detached VNC Console created using Cockpit Web interface
REFERENCES
(*) Assisted by Google AI
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