On gio, 2014-06-12 at 22:34 +1200, Peter wrote: > This is not a complete list of the ways you can install a VM either. My > personal preference is to manually create the filesystem for the VM and > then install the OS core with yum. Then after tweaking some config > files you can start up the VM and finish installing whatever else you > want with yum as well. > > While I don't think that this should be the recommended install method > it might be worth mentioning and even giving a wiki page with some > instructions on how to do it this way. Doing an install like this is > actually very good for a newbie because you "get your hands dirty" and > get a really good understanding of how yum works and the internals of > the distro. > Indeed it does! If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P We've got both CentOS and Fedora categories on the Wiki, both hosting various pages, guides, instructions, etc., but none of them (I think) goes through the procedure you mentioned: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Category:CentOS http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Category:Fedora Feel free to add it! :-) Regards, Dario -- <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20140612/854d97ea/attachment-0004.sig>