[CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

[Jim Wildman]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:

> BTW, can guests be installed on raw (unformatted or formatted)
> partitions (not images)? Can virt-install do that? I tried it and had no
> luck.
>
> - Jussi

You can install them to logical volumes...

Season to taste 
virt-install -p -n test_phys -r 512 --arch=x86_64 --os-type=linux
--os-variant=rhel5 -l http://192.168.200.2/c5u5_x86_64 -x
ks=http://192.168.200.2/buildhost.ks -f /dev/vg_tosh/lv_phys -b virbr0

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