[Fedora-xen] Creating and installing Centos under virt-manager

Andrew Cathrow acathrow at redhat.com
Sat Sep 22 03:04:48 UTC 2007


A network install is the best option but you can always add and remove
devices using virsh

Have a look in the man page for virsh at attach-disk and detach-disk 



On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 22:36 -0400, Mark Nielsen wrote:

> or create a DVD .iso file from the 6 CDs. I have instructions on my 
> website, www.certifried.com
> 
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > John Lagrue wrote:
> >> All working a treat: created the guest (fully virtualised - I have no
> >> time for Xen), setup disk space in a 6Gb file, gave it a name, and
> >> pointed the installation source to be the first of 6 .iso files for
> >> Centos 5 installation
> >>
> >> ......then it asks for the second CDRom!
> >>
> >> How the blazes is one supposed to tell it where to get the file?
> >>
> >> I'm completely stuck! I thought this was supposed to work with .iso
> >> files and I wouldn't have to burn 6 CDs. But what happens now?
> >>
> > Last I read, the ability to change CD was "planned for the future."
> >
> > You're better off using the DVD image. If you can find a .jigdo file 
> > and template (I think CentOS does it), then you don't have to download 
> > much of CentOS 5 again.
> >
> > Or do a network install: nfs should work really well over a virtual LAN.
> >
> >
> >
> 
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