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