How To Kickstart A Guest With CentOS 6.6 & Xen 4.4
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!
2 thoughts on - How To Kickstart A Guest With CentOS 6.6 & Xen 4.4
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
I’ve found this helpful:
http://grantmcwilliams.com/tech/virtualization/xen-howtos/393-CentOS-6-virtual-machine-64-bit-installation-on-xen
A couple of changes you have to make though: you have to take out the
“bootloader=pygrub” line in his config file.
But we probably should have something like that on the wiki page