diff --git a/virt-install b/virt-install
index e0659a40..44a5c879 100755
--- a/virt-install
+++ b/virt-install
@@ -368,6 +368,9 @@ def check_option_collisions(options, guest, installer):
         if options.initrd_inject or options.extra_args:
             fail(_("--unattended does not support --initrd-inject nor --extra-args."))

+    if options.install:
+        pass
+

 def _show_nographics_warnings(options, guest, installer):
     if guest.devices.graphics:
@@ -816,6 +819,8 @@ def parse_args():
                     help=_("Add given file to root of initrd from --location"))
     insg.add_argument("--unattended",
                     help=_("Perform a unattended installation"))
+    insg.add_argument("--install",
+                    help=_("Perform cloud image installation with cloud-init configuration"))

     # Takes a URL and just prints to stdout the detected distro name
     insg.add_argument("--test-media-detection", help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
diff --git a/virtinst/cli.py b/virtinst/cli.py
index 7ba6b211..05841565 100644
--- a/virtinst/cli.py
+++ b/virtinst/cli.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from .devices import (Device, DeviceController, DeviceDisk, DeviceGraphics,
 from .nodedev import NodeDevice
 from .storage import StoragePool, StorageVolume
 from .unattended import UnattendedData
+from .cloud import CloudInit


 ##########################
@@ -463,7 +464,7 @@ def get_meter():

 def _get_completer_parsers():
     return VIRT_PARSERS + [ParserCheck, ParserLocation, ParserOSVariant,
-            ParserUnattended]
+            ParserUnattended, ParserCloudInit]


 def _virtparser_completer(prefix, **kwargs):
@@ -1512,6 +1513,25 @@ def parse_unattended(optstr):
     return ret

+########################
+# --cloud-init parsing #
+########################
+
+class ParserCloudInit(VirtCLIParser):
+    cli_arg_name = "install"
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _init_class(cls, **kwargs):
+        VirtCLIParser._init_class(**kwargs)
+        cls.add_arg("is.cloud", "is_cloud")
+
+def parse_install(optstr):
+    ret = CloudInit()
+    parser = ParserCloudInit(optstr)
+    parser.parse(ret)
+    return ret
+
+