[CentOS-virt] How to kickstart a guest with Centos 6.6 Xen 4.4

2015-07-30 Thread Elliot Fox
Hello,

I posted a question over at xenproject.org but it was recommended that I
send out a message here for help.

My post there:
http://www.xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/vanilla-pv-centos-guest-via-kickstart-centos-6-6,-xen-4-4.html

The TL;DR is: Everything I've found to kickstart a new vanilla rhel/centos
guest points to specifying a kernel  and initrd- for RHEL/Centos 5. But
where is the xen initrd for Centos 6? The Xen4Quickstart instructions are
awesome, but after install you are left with a kernel and an initramfs  no
initrd for a centos 6 guest in xen.

So is there a better way to kickstart a fresh/vanilla VM post
Xen4Quickstart instructions? Shall I build an initrd from the initramfs
(and how) or is there another way?

Apologies if this is discussed elsewhere, but if it is I have yet to find
it and I've been looking around for some time.

Thank you!
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Re: [CentOS-virt] How to kickstart a guest with Centos 6.6 Xen 4.4

2015-07-30 Thread Sarah Newman
On 07/30/2015 05:29 AM, Elliot Fox wrote:

 The TL;DR is: Everything I've found to kickstart a new vanilla rhel/centos 
 guest points to specifying a kernel  and initrd- for RHEL/Centos 5. But
 where is the xen initrd for Centos 6? The Xen4Quickstart instructions are 
 awesome, but after install you are left with a kernel and an initramfs  no
 initrd for a centos 6 guest in xen.
 
 So is there a better way to kickstart a fresh/vanilla VM post Xen4Quickstart 
 instructions? Shall I build an initrd from the initramfs (and how) or is
 there another way?


If you want do a kickstart install using the PXE initrd.img, use the matching 
PXE vmlinuz. Generally speaking, don't mix and match kernel and
initramfs versions and assume it will work even if they're from the same major 
release.

Where to find the kickstart file needs to be specified in the normal way
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html
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