On 03/16/2015 08:58 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:52:42PM -0700, Sarah Newman wrote:
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
Yeah you can use virt-install on CentOS 5 Xen host to install CentOS 6 PV domUs,
I do that often, an example for GUI installation:
virt-install -d -n vmname -r 1024 --vcpus=2 -f /dev/vg01/vmname_disk0 -b virbr0 --vnc -p -l "http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/6.5/os/x86_64";
(you need to have virt-viewer installed, that'll be used to display the VNC GUI console).
-- Pasi
Quote from an actual installation:
[root@xenh4 ~]# history| grep virt
virt-install -n dhcpdns -p -r 1024 --os-type=linux --vnc -f
/var/lib/xen/images/dhcpdns -s 2 -l
http://192.168.50.40/mrepo/centos6-i386/disc1 -x
"ks=ftp://192.168.50.40/linux/ks-minimalC6-xen.cfg";
[root@xenh4 ~]# uname -a
Linux xenh4 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 02:18:37 EST 2014
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
https://github.com/CentOS/Community-Kickstarts/blob/master/ks-minimalC6.cfg
is quite close to the above mentioned ks-minimalC6-xen.cfg ( actually
both are descendants of the same template of mine )
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