On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Elliot Fox <elliotnfox at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I posted a question over at xenproject.org but it was recommended that I > send out a message here for help. > > My post there: > http://www.xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/vanilla-pv-centos-guest-via-kickstart-centos-6-6,-xen-4-4.html > > The TL;DR is: Everything I've found to kickstart a new vanilla rhel/centos > guest points to specifying a kernel & and initrd- for RHEL/Centos 5. But > where is the xen initrd for Centos 6? The Xen4Quickstart instructions are > awesome, but after install you are left with a kernel and an initramfs & no > initrd for a centos 6 guest in xen. > > So is there a better way to kickstart a fresh/vanilla VM post Xen4Quickstart > instructions? Shall I build an initrd from the initramfs (and how) or is > there another way? > > Apologies if this is discussed elsewhere, but if it is I have yet to find it > and I've been looking around for some time. I've found this helpful: http://grantmcwilliams.com/tech/virtualization/xen-howtos/393-centos-6-virtual-machine-64-bit-installation-on-xen A couple of changes you have to make though: you have to take out the "bootloader=pygrub" line in his config file. But we probably should have something like that on the wiki page -- thanks for asking about it. :-) -George