CentOS 5 domU out of thin air

UPDATE: As Matt pointed out it's DomU not Dom0!

I finally got around to working out how to pull a CentOS install out of thin air without messing about with out of date images from jailtime.org and fiddling about trying to find xen aware kernels to boot (harder than it sounds when you only have one machine of each type of architecture/OS and don't want to dual boot)

root@frank xVM $ virt-install -n centy -r 512 --vcpus=1 --nographics --os-type=linux -p -f /dev/zvol/dsk/tank/xVM/centy -l http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.1/os/x86_64 -d

once its up it will drop you back to the shell prompt and tell you to reconnect for the domain console.

Just do

root@frank xm console centy

to get a console connection and run through the normal install wizard from there.

run through install procedure as normal pulling everything down across the internet - it used to be much slower doing this when I used to install redhat across an ISDN connection - thank you broadband.