On 03/15/2015 07:39 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Sarah Newman <srn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 03/15/2015 03:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> So I'm right back to my effectively unanswered original questions. So >>> please: I asked a very specific pair of questions, and they remain >>> unanswered. CentOS 5 Xen server (hypervisor, or Dom0, whatever we want >>> to call it this week): Does CentOS 6 work, paravirtualized, on such a >>> server? And given my deployment issues, does anyone have a base OS >>> image I can get a copy of? >> >> I'm not sure why you need tftp to do a net install assuming you control the guest configuration. >> >> How about >> >> kernel = file from https://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/os/i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz >> ramdisk = file from https://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/os/i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img >> extra = "console=hvc0" >> memory = 512 or larger >> >> --Sarah > > I'll be happy to try this. Thank you for the pointer. Are you > confident that 'console=hvc0' is the right installation time message > for this? And will I be able to access a CD or DVD image for actual OS > installation with these options? It is net install IE you download packages over the network. No CD/DVD. console=hvc0 is the xen part, otherwise look at the standard installation instructions for centos 6. > > I'd really prefer to work from 'virsh' than from hand-writing xl > configuration files.When I last did this sort of thing, I worked from > a PXE environment that I controlled and could reserve DHCP settings > based on MAC addresses, and tune PXE to boot from disk by default but > allow users to select a clean re-install of the operating system they > wanted. virt-install with --location maybe? Never tried it but it looks like what you want. http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
