[Xen-users] Making system templates

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am wanting to set up a bunch of system templates for my Xen servers, 
to save me from running some standard package installs and 
configuration. I can see 4 alternatives, but all seem to have issues and 
I'm wondering what works in practice:
1) LVM snapshot

Problem with this is that I don't see any way to change the disk size of 
the new disk ever. Fast though.
2) New device and block level copy (dd)

Seems to work fine, but the disk needs to be repartitioned and 
filesystem resized for bigger disks on the new guest. Takes a while.
3) New device and file level copy (cpio)

Can completely change the partition scheme and filesystem. Complex to do 
from dom0. Slow.
4) virt-clone?

I couldn't get this to work at all. Either the domU was running and I 
got "ERROR    Domain status must be SHUTOFF" or the domU was shutdown 
and I got "ERROR    Domain test is not found".
Regards,
Jeff

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