[Fedora-livecd-list] How To Create a LiveCD for Xen

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:25:41PM +0530, M P Sairam wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:14:35PM +0530, M P Sairam wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>    I want to create a live CD which can work in Xen. can any one help me?
>>>    I googled it but i didn't get good enough material.
>>>     
>> You mean a live CD which can be booted as a Xen guest?  Or a live CD
>> which contains (eg) a Xen hypervisor?
>>
> I mean a live CD which can be booted as a Xen guest

I haven't tried it for Xen (only for QEMU/KVM where it definitely
works), but you should just be able to boot the CDROM directly.

Try creating XML configuration following this example:

  http://libvirt.org/format.html#Fully1

and set the cdrom source file to point to the ISO file.  You can leave
out the hard disk, or point it at an empty file or existing image
depending on what you want.  Then do:

  virsh define my.xml
  virsh start fv0

(where fv0 is whatever you chose as the domain name within the XML
file).

Rich.

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