Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Johnny Tan wrote: >> 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? > > Here is a good link: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide Based on that link, this seems like a regular install of Xen onto a LVM partition. I thought Amos was referring to some special setup. CentOS can definitely do this. Just setup LVM, and then manually edit the /etc/xen/myvm file so that the disk line is: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/myvg/mylv,xvda,w', ] johnn