Re: [Xen-users] How to install an HVM linux guest without bootcd?

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Has somebody found a way to install an HVM linux guest without a bootcd?
>
> Thanks

Hi Goran,

It'd probably help if we knew what you are trying to achieve here...?

You can probably install a guest using emulated floppy disks, but that would 
be a bit masochistic :-)  You could also do a network install, I guess.

You could try to craft a bootable filesystem from dom0 - that's doable, but 
I'm not really sure what the advantage would be.

IMHO the best way to install guests is to have a "gold" image that you 
installed from CD-ROM (or whatever your normal install process is) then just 
copy that disk image to make new virtual machines.

Cheers,
Mark

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