[xen-tools-discuss] What can I run Xen 4.0 on?

[Dmitry Nedospasov]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:19:18AM -0500, Brent Bolin wrote:
> Any suggestions on howto get centos installed without using virtinst

Unfortunately, no. But, do take a look at the xen-tools branch here, it
has a bunch of fixes for rpm based systems [1].

[1] http://gitorious.org/~nats/xen-tools/nats-xen-tools

Note: Like I said, our goal is to merge the fixes listed there into our
master with the next release.

CentOS/RHEL/Fedora offer no bootstrapper. The only possibility is using
kickstart, which is the only way AFAIK to do scripted unattended
installations of rpm-based systems. In fact, we considered baking
kickstart support into xen-tools, but this is fairly unattractive as
it's very different to what xen-tools does otherwise (bootstrap a
basesystem).

With kickstart we would create a "custom" netinstall .iso containing all
of the settings the user passed to the command. This would then boot in
an XM installing the system with the regular system installer.

So currently, the best install method is still rinse, which is
esentially another orphaned project. In any case, if anyone is
interested, there is definately room for a couple of devs to work on our
rpm-based support.

I would work on it if I had time, but currently pv-grub is at the top of
my priority list, and I don't really have the time to do that :(

Regards,

D.
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