[Xen-users] OS install into domU... command line only?

["Kraska, Joe A \(US SSA\)" <joe.kraska@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I’ve decided to divorce myself from all of the gui tools for Xen at the moment,

and have been learning everything about the Xen xm command tool that I

possibly can.

 

In the suse, rhel, and xen enterprise gui clients, there is usually some way

to install your os from CD/DVD, ftp root, or iso.

 

I know how to dd an img file now, mount it, and so forth, also know how to

mount an iso file. So I can sort of guess what might be happening, but not

quite.

 

Question is:

 

What approaches are these gui tools using to install the os into the img

file? In the ftp case, at the other end are rpms.

 

More pointed question: how ought *I* provision a vm from ISO?

 

What’s the recommended path?

 

What provisioning technique is everyone preferring when they are working

command line only?

 

Joe.

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