Re: [Xen-users] How to initiate a guest installation from the CD-ROM media

[Ido Levy <IDOL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Nico for your tip.

As per your advice I enabled the support for the CPU and now I am able to
use full Virtualization.

I have two more question that I would appreciate your advice:

1) Is there any performance differences between para and full
virtualization ?
2) What is better to create the virtual machine as a separate partition or
as a file ?

Thanks

Ido



                                                                           
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Ido Levy wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am pretty new to Xen and I would appreciate you advice on the following
> issue.
>
> I have installed Red Hat 5 Update 1 with the xen kernel and all the
> required packages for virtualization support.
> I reached to the point where dom0 is up and running.
>
> Now I want to install a guest Linux OS from a customize Linux CD-ROM I
> have.
> I tried to use virt-install and virt-manager but the only install
location
> supported is via ftp, http or NFS.
>
> Under my restrictions the only way I have to install the required guest
is
> by initiating a CD_ROM installation.
>
> How can I do it ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ido
>
>
You need full virtualization to do a CD installation. Does your CPU
support that? If so, enable it and select full virtualization instead of
hte para-virtualization you're currently seeing.

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