Amos,

The quickest way to deploy a Xen VM requires a little more prep work...

Use the regular (long) method as discussed. Most use an HVM to do the install but config it as a domU afterward as most installers only work reliably in a fully virtualized environment.

Create an LVM based guest for each distribution/OS you plan to use. Then for each Xen guest you want to create take an LVM snapshot of the distribution/OS of choice and use that for the guest.

This way guest deployment is very quick and disk space is conserved wisely. You can start with 1 or 2 GB snapshot and as space gets tight in the snapshot add more storage.

-Ross


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@centos.org <centos-bounces@centos.org>
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Sent: Tue Dec 11 01:50:01 2007
Subject: Re: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

On 11/12/2007, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker@medallion.com> wrote:
> Here is a good link: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide

Ah and forgot to say "thank you" for the link. Looks useful.

Cheers,

--Amos
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