>
> Again, I think this is the wrong way to go, it's outdated. I've never done
> it this way and I think this How-To is derived from very old Xen versions
> and got updated a few times over time without changing the basics. It
> *may* work, but it's complicated to follow and overly complex, e.g. you
> can very easily make a tiny mistake and never get going which is highly
> frustrating.
Actual, virt-install commmand line looks no less daunting to me. The Wiki
described method should work for all RH derived distributions that are Xen PV
compatible. I tried SME (or it might have been Trixbox... or both!) and it
installed okay, but the kernel wasn't happy in a Xen world. Could fix it, but
was lazy and used hardware virtualisation. Personally, I prefer to keep swap on
a seperate partition, as it makes it easier to mount root. I don't know if that
is possible under virt-install.
To be honest, I don't really think there are too many shortcuts with Xen,
because it pays to understand how it works at a lower level, how to mount
loopbacks, even with LVM's inside them, etc. I can't really remember the
options under virt-install, but if they do 'dumb things down', then that may
not be helpful in the long run.
Anyway, both ways are way more friendly than debootstrapping your Debian
system. ;o)
> disk = [ "file:/home2/vm/d-minimal.img,xvda,w"]
I think tap:aio is more favoured than file, for performance reasons.
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