On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Sarah Newman <srn at prgmr.com> wrote: > On 03/15/2015 03:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> So I'm right back to my effectively unanswered original questions. So >> please: I asked a very specific pair of questions, and they remain >> unanswered. CentOS 5 Xen server (hypervisor, or Dom0, whatever we want >> to call it this week): Does CentOS 6 work, paravirtualized, on such a >> server? And given my deployment issues, does anyone have a base OS >> image I can get a copy of? > > I'm not sure why you need tftp to do a net install assuming you control the guest configuration. > > How about > > kernel = file from https://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/os/i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz > ramdisk = file from https://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/os/i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img > extra = "console=hvc0" > memory = 512 or larger > > --Sarah I'll be happy to try this. Thank you for the pointer. Are you confident that 'console=hvc0' is the right installation time message for this? And will I be able to access a CD or DVD image for actual OS installation with these options? I'd really prefer to work from 'virsh' than from hand-writing xl configuration files.When I last did this sort of thing, I worked from a PXE environment that I controlled and could reserve DHCP settings based on MAC addresses, and tune PXE to boot from disk by default but allow users to select a clean re-install of the operating system they wanted.