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It’s well known that OpenSuse’s utility vm-install fails to perform RH PV guests install via NFS shares. Install from Internet repositories requires software download about 4GB of data for any CentOS 5.X of Fedora PV DomU. Corresponding ISO images have been copied to CentOS 5.2 box running Apache HTTP Server and located on same LAN. Then this images were loop mounted to corresponding folders under /var/www/html. This procedure provided an option for vm-install (via http) RH PV Guests at Xen 3.2.1 OpenSuse 11 Dom0 in pretty short time frame about 40-50 minutes for every DomU been installed.
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