Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:13:01 +0200:
You are talking about a basic vm installation to a partition instead of an image file?
That doesn't make a difference. Whether you virt-install to file or partition you end up with xvda'd disks.
If they work at all you one way or the other do not like the outcome.
Well, they do work quite well. I did a lot of installs with virt-install and kickstart. A pleasure. If you don't mind ending up with xvda it's a good way. Depends on your needs. I need customized installations for webhosting that have quite a few additional programs installed and preconfigured and going with template disks is the much easier way then. And then it pays to be able to access the disks anytime with a simple mount.
Kai