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Re: [Xen-users] VMWare and xen comparison

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VMWare and xen comparison
From: Dominique Rousseau <d.rousseau@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:23:29 +0100
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Le Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:46:01AM +0000, Shahzad Chohan
[shahzad.chohan@xxxxxxxxx] a écrit:
> 1. Installation. Having tried to install xen hosts, I have found it to
> be difficult. The problem I find is that I have to reboot my server to
> install a new host as I can't install from cd without rebooting.
> Alternativly vmware allows me to install from cd a new hosts without
> the need to reboot the server and shutdown the other hosts. Yum
> installations are pain. What ways are there to get round this problem
> say in a redhat or fedora installation?

You should make the install on another box, and then copy files from
there to your disk image (or partion, or lvm, ...) on the Xen server.
If you often install similar virtual servers, just make a disk image
that just copy from to install a new one in few minutes.



Dom

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