[CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

Johnny Tan linuxweb at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 22:27:14 UTC 2007


Amos Shapira wrote:
> When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or
> less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the
> advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup the Xen guest
> directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM
> partition as an entire disk with a partition table.

I might be missing something, but that link seems to talk 
about FAI and doesn't mention xen. I'm interested in seeing 
how it can install on the LVM partition but the OS doesn't 
see it as an entire disk with a partition table. What does 
"fdisk -l" show, then?

johnn



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