Creating A Paravirtualized Guest Manually; Creating The Root File System - Oracle VM User Manual

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Figure 4–1 Text-based Installer Screen

Follow the prompts to complete the guest operating system installation.

4.5 Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually

To manually create a paravirtualized guest:

Create the root file system.

Populate the root file system.

Configure the guest.

To create the root file system:

Create a root partition for the guest. The root partition may be a:

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Select one of the following options to create the root file system.

Physical partition

Logical Volume Manager-backed Virtual Block Device

File-backed Virtual Block Device

Using a physical disk partition

Create a disk partition for the guest root.

Make a file system on the partition.

Using a Logical Volume Manager-backed Virtual Block Device

A particularly appealing solution is to use a Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

volume as backing for a guest file system, as this allows dynamic growing and

shrinking of volumes, snapshots, and other features.

To initialize a partition to support LVM volumes, enter

# pvcreate /dev/sda10

Create a volume group named vg on the physical partition:

Creating a Paravirtualized Guest Manually

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