Chapter 3. PROVISIONING DOMUS

You can suck Linux right out of the air, as it were, by downloading the right files and putting them in the right places, but there probably are not more than a few hundred people in the world who could create a functioning Linux system in that way.

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Up until now, we've focused on administering the dom0, leaving the specifics of domU creation up to the virt-install tool. However, you'll probably need to build a domU image from scratch on occasion. There are plenty of good reasons for this—perhaps you want an absolutely minimal Linux environment to use as a base for ...

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