Re: [Xen-users] Partition vs disk images

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I didn't find a way to directly install on the LV, but it's possible to 
> install like normal to xvda and just use one partition (one could use 
> more, but then it gets more complex). Then attach another LV and copy the 
> the system over:
> cp -ax /{bin,boot,etc,home,lib,media,mnt,opt,root,sbin,srv,tmp,usr,var} 
> /mnt/vm4
> create dev, proc and sys directories
> change fstab and grub.conf (to use /dev/sda1 or whatever you name it)
> disable selinux in /etc/selinux/config
> xm create the new vm with a config file that fits
>   
Don't forget to change the network configurations, as well, and set a 
new MAC address in your Xen configuration files. Or the new image will 
much with the network connections of your old image.
Unfortunately, RHEL's installation tools and CD image do not deal well 
with running 'grub-install' from their CD rescue images. You have to do 
something clever like duplicate the /boot partition and grub boot loader 
with tools like 'dd', and keep /boot as your tiny first partition, if 
you intend to use the pygrub tool normally used with RHEL for booting 
Xen images. Otherwise you have to keep a copy of the guest kernel on 
your server: this is a *NASTY* problem if you use the Xensource kernels, 
which traditionally had the same kernel name for RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 kernels.
> This is outlined in more detail here:
> http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Building_a_Xen_Virtual_Guest_Filesyst
> em_using_Logical_Volume_Management_%28LVM%29
> but you don't have to do all these steps, just what I did.
>
> Kai
>
>   
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