Re: [Xen-users] Howto install domU CentOS 5 directly on partition

[Paul Van Allsburg <paulvanall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Liam,
I'd like to see the details - I'll try on a f7 machine.  It would be 
great not to have to learn everything from scratch for once!
Thanks!
Paul Van Allsburg

Liam Kirsher wrote:
> I used virt-install, and selected custom partitioning during the install
> process, removing the LVM stuff and reducing it to one partition.  Then
> the install proceeded fine.  That created my "template" OS, with a
> single partition and no swap (ignore the warning about missing swap
> during install).  That is created on a logical volume accessible from
> dom0, can be mounted with kpartx and mount.
>
> Now I just create logical volumes for data and swap, and copy (using dd)
> the template to the data, mkswap on swap.
> Then, mount the data volume, make a few changes, and just start it up.
> I can send more details if you like, but I've got to run now.
> It took me a *looooong* time to figure out exactly how to do it, but now
> I can set up a new domU in less than ten minutes, and it´s easy to
> access the domU files from dom0.
>
> Liam
>
>
> kanour-xen wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am new to CentOS (Debian user) and I am looking for way how to
> > install CentOS 5 on domU in the way that I have it directly on dom0
> > LVM partition.
> > If I install it with virtual-manager then the installation program
> > takes that partition as a disk and then creates new partitions on it.
> > I don't want it that way because I cannot then mount it from dom0.
> >
> > Is there some way how to install it directly on partition as for
> > example in Debian with debootstrap?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Jiri
> >
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