I’ve decided to divorce myself from all of the gui
tools for Xen at the moment,
and have been learning everything about the Xen xm command
tool that I
possibly can.
In the suse, rhel, and xen enterprise gui clients, there is
usually some way
to install your os from CD/DVD, ftp root, or iso.
I know how to dd an img file now, mount it, and so forth,
also know how to
mount an iso file. So I can sort of guess what might be
happening, but not
quite.
Question is:
What approaches are these gui tools using to install the os
into the img
file? In the ftp case, at the other end are rpms.
More pointed question: how ought *I* provision a vm from ISO?
What’s the recommended path?
What provisioning technique is everyone preferring when they
are working
command line only?
Joe.
