Hi Chris, I'm actually just needing to create files of various sizes, not to be used in Xen tho. More for testing I/O chars of various thing. On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: > 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 > > > financial.com AG > > Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 > München | Germany > Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | > Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany > Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis > Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach > Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/ > Vorsitzender) > Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID > number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos