[Fedora-xen] Testing LiveCD distros as guests?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Sat Jul 12 20:46:06 UTC 2008


On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:50:14 +1000
Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:

> I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to 
> set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main 
> machine?

If your hardware supports HVM installs, then just tell virt-manager
you are going to install a new HVM virtual machine and the install
media is the live cd image. With no HVM support, I don't know - some
live CDs might run paravirt, but I have no specific knowledge
of such a beast.




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