Re: [Xen-users] Howto install domU CentOS 5 directly on partition

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

kanour-xen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am new to CentOS (Debian user) and I am looking for way how to 
> install CentOS 5 on domU in the way that I have it directly on dom0 
> LVM partition.
> If I install it with virtual-manager then the installation program 
> takes that partition as a disk and then creates new partitions on it. 
> I don't want it that way because I cannot then mount it from dom0.
> Is there some way how to install it directly on partition as for 
> example in Debian with debootstrap?
Only by manually building a tarball of a working OS image, and laying it 
onto your partitions directly. Take a look at www.jailtime.org for 
samples. Note that pygrub, and grub itself, *will not work* if you do 
this. Grub needs to see a disk, not just partitions, for various 
configuration reasons. This may be soluble in the long term, but I 
lacked time to play iwth it.
Why not use partitions on partitions, and use "kpartx" to make them 
accessible from the Dom0?
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