[Fedora-livecd-list] How To Create a LiveCD for Xen

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:28:27PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:25:41PM +0530, M P Sairam wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:14:35PM +0530, M P Sairam wrote:
> >>   
> >>> Hi,
> >>>    I want to create a live CD which can work in Xen. can any one help me?
> >>>    I googled it but i didn't get good enough material.
> >>>     
> >> You mean a live CD which can be booted as a Xen guest?  Or a live CD
> >> which contains (eg) a Xen hypervisor?
> >>
> > I mean a live CD which can be booted as a Xen guest
> 
> I haven't tried it for Xen (only for QEMU/KVM where it definitely
> works), but you should just be able to boot the CDROM directly.
> 
> Try creating XML configuration following this example:

You can do this more directly with virt-install

[quote src="virt-install(1)"]
       Run a Live CD image under Xen fullyvirt, in diskless environment

         # virt-install \
              --hvm \
              --name demo \
              --ram 500 \
              --nodisk \
              --livecd \
              --vnc \
              --cdrom /root/fedora7live.iso
[/quote]

Regards,
Dan.
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