On 03/16/2015 08:58 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:52:42PM -0700, Sarah Newman wrote: >>> 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. >> virt-install with --location maybe? Never tried it but it looks like what you want. >> >> http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install >> > Yeah you can use virt-install on CentOS 5 Xen host to install CentOS 6 PV domUs, > I do that often, an example for GUI installation: > > virt-install -d -n vmname -r 1024 --vcpus=2 -f /dev/vg01/vmname_disk0 -b virbr0 --vnc -p -l "http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/6.5/os/x86_64" > > (you need to have virt-viewer installed, that'll be used to display the VNC GUI console). > > -- Pasi Quote from an actual installation: [root at xenh4 ~]# history| grep virt virt-install -n dhcpdns -p -r 1024 --os-type=linux --vnc -f /var/lib/xen/images/dhcpdns -s 2 -l http://192.168.50.40/mrepo/centos6-i386/disc1 -x "ks=ftp://192.168.50.40/linux/ks-minimalC6-xen.cfg" [root at xenh4 ~]# uname -a Linux xenh4 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 02:18:37 EST 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux https://github.com/CentOS/Community-Kickstarts/blob/master/ks-minimalC6.cfg is quite close to the above mentioned ks-minimalC6-xen.cfg ( actually both are descendants of the same template of mine )