[Xen-users] Install guest domains using virt-manager and iso images

[Daniel Lam <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Hope I'm not too annoying yet..

I have CentOS 5.4 running as Domain 0.

I can create CentOS guest domains via network using virt-install.

However that's a bit slow, and I don't want to repeat the 

download process again if I create new guest domains.

So my questions:

- Can I create guest CentOS domains using virt-install

  and specify a dvd iso image as its installation source?

- If I can, where can I obtain the iso images? Should I 

  just use the standard installation iso images? However

  I actually tried specifying "cd-rom" as installation source

  before, hoping that I could create a guest domain 

  using the DVD I already burnt. However it says

  "Paravirtualized guests cannot install off cdrom media".

For the record, I also tried creating guest domains just by

"xm create" as well, however it threw some errors to me

when it tries to change the partition table. Not sure why.

Don't want to spend time on that approach.

cheers,

Daniel

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