Jason Aubrey wrote: > I don't know if it's xen under the hood or not (not much experience > with this sort of thing). However, 'xen' is mentioned in the > following link which I'm following so perhaps it is xen related: > http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2009-03-01/DeveloperGuide/index.html?ami-via-loopback.html > > fromw hat I can tell, they are just creating a temp yum repo conf file to specify what repos to install from and calling it |yum-xen.conf for some reason. they then use that .conf file with yum like... | ||*|yum -c /|<yum_configuration_file>|/ --installroot=/|<image_mountpoint>|/ -y groupinstall Base and install the 'base' group to the loopback mount, which populates the file system image. |*