[CentOS] bsd mkfile command in centos - a wish

Mon Oct 5 23:11:28 UTC 2009
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 20:22 +0200 schrieb Michel van Deventer:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:14 -0700, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi Les,
> >
> > Yes, I do run dd to create Xen image files but was hoping to use a
> > more elegant solution.
> >
> > Looks like I'll continue with dd but if any one else has some secrets,
> > please share.
> qemu-img create -f <fmt> <imagefile> [size] is more elegant :)
>

Or even more fancy use virt-install to do everything in one command line
to set up virtual machines.

Chris


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