RE: [Xen-users] Creating linux guest filesystem

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob van Oostveen [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 June 2007 15:35
> To: Petersson, Mats; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Creating linux guest filesystem
> 
> Mats,
> 
> > Is this for para-virtual or HVM domain?
> 
> para-virtual
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I tried virt-install, but doesnt work. I suspect this is due 
> to the fact that
> I didn't use the rpm's.
> 
> If I wanted to create a basic filesystem based on PV storage, 
> besides creating
> the logical volume and filesystem itself, how can I create 
> the linux direcotry
> infrastructure? 

You could essentially do "tar cf  - / --exclude /mnt | tar xf - -C
/mnt/mydisk" where "/mnt/mydisk" is your mounted disk-image. [I'm not
entirely sure about the exact syntax - but I think the above will do the
trick]. 

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



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