[Fedora-xen] easy way to configure domU

Rob Dyke rob at comwifinet.com
Wed Jul 18 13:02:15 UTC 2007


Asrai,

I build from my own mirror of fedora/rhel installation source using 
kickstart files... I can build a new domU in about 15 minutes with a 
tight package selection based on the server task.

You could also look at http://xen-tools.org/index.html

Rob

Asrai khn wrote:
> Hi I am wondering is there an easy way to configure domU (vm) quickly, 
> atm we are using eg LV (Logical Volumes) to storge root, var and swap 
> for VM and then using 
>
> disk = [ 'phy:vg/myvmdisk1,sda1,w', ... ,...  ] to launch it.
>
> We takes the tar gunzip of file system of root, var of currently 
> running vm and when need arrives we just have to created  LVs and 
> untar the achieves and launch the new vm with very little changes.
>
> Only one problem in this approach is that we get little outdated vm 
> which need to update using 'yum'. So is there a way to start new vm 
> fast and using currently updated running vm file system?
>
> Thanks. Askar.
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