RE: [Xen-users] Creating linux guest filesystem

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Rob van Oostveen
> Sent: 29 June 2007 15:11
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Creating linux guest filesystem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone guide me through (or point me to a readme) the procedure of
> creating a filesystem for a guest linux domain? I've set up a 
> redhat fc6 with
> Xen 3.1 as the domain-0.

Is this for para-virtual or HVM domain?

The process is pretty similar to begin with: You create a file/partition
(or files/partitions if you want) that is your domain "disk(s)". E.g.
"dd if=/dev/zero of=mydisk.img bs=1M count=10k". 

This will create a 10G disk image. 

If you are using it as PV-domain storage, then you need to create a
file-system and copy in the files to build a linux infrastructure on the
disk. There are tools around to do that. "debootstrap" is one of those
(it works for Debian-like distributions). Redhat/Fedora uses
"virt-install" fo the same purpose (but it's only able to install off a
network source accoreding to the docs I found in a quick search). You
may want to google these things. 

For HVM installations, I usually do a base-install from a CDROM and if I
need more than one, I copy the resuling image/partition to create
multiple installations. 

--
Mats
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
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