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Re: [Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison

To: "Black Dew" <bdew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison
From: "John Madden" <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:05:39 -0500 (EST)
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> mke3fs /dev/blah
> mount /dev/blah /mnt
> debootstrap sarge /mnt
> umount /mnt

Distro-agnostic:

Create an OS "image" right out of your Dom0:
mount /dev/blah /mnt
find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt

Copy it later to your new DomU:
mount /dev/blah /mnt/1
mount /dev/newblah /mnt/2
cd /mnt/1
find ./ -xdev | cpio -pm ../2

...That's how I deploy all of my DomU's.

John





-- 
John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx


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