Bernhard Gschaider wrote on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:47:07 +0200: > - following the Wiki-Howto to the letter (especially using the > Xen-install-kernels) Again, I think this is the wrong way to go, it's outdated. I've never done it this way and I think this How-To is derived from very old Xen versions and got updated a few times over time without changing the basics. It *may* work, but it's complicated to follow and overly complex, e.g. you can very easily make a tiny mistake and never get going which is highly frustrating. As I wrote, just do a "virt-install -p" and that's all. No "install kernels", no creation of an image file, no nothing. virt-install will do everything for you. Once the VM has been setup and saved you can create a config-file and put it in /etc/xen and then "xm create" the machine. Straight-forward and easy. The config-file is going to look like this: name = "d-mini" maxmem = 128 memory = 128 vcpus = 1 bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" #vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncdisplay=12,vncunused=1" ] disk = [ "file:/home2/vm/d-minimal.img,xvda,w"] vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:43:18:13" ] And if you prefer kickstart a (replace with your own data) virt-install -p --location=ftp://.... --noautoconsole --nographics -- file=/.../d-minimal.img --file-size=1 --name=d-mini --ram=256 -x "ks=ftp://.../minimal-file.ks ip=192.168.1.* netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.1.* gateway=192.168.1.*" gets you in business in less than 10 minutes without any manual intervention. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com