On 06/11/2014 04:21 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > > following the discussion on about documentation, I was wondering whether > we need to look at a standard way in which we recommend how to provision > images for VMs. Am starting this with a Xen hat, but the discussion > should not be specific to this. There are a number of options, but all > have some trade-offs > > == #1 virt-install == > == #2 xen-tools == > == #3 virt-builder (http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html) == > == #4 Cloud Image from Cloud Image SIG == This is not a complete list of the ways you can install a VM either. My personal preference is to manually create the filesystem for the VM and then install the OS core with yum. Then after tweaking some config files you can start up the VM and finish installing whatever else you want with yum as well. While I don't think that this should be the recommended install method it might be worth mentioning and even giving a wiki page with some instructions on how to do it this way. Doing an install like this is actually very good for a newbie because you "get your hands dirty" and get a really good understanding of how yum works and the internals of the distro. Peter _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
