QEMU Install
Our favorite way to create the domU image—the way that most closely simulates a real machine—is probably to install using QEMU and then take the installed filesystem and use that as your domU root filesystem. This allows you, the installer, to leverage your years of experience installing Linux. Because it's installing in a virtual machine as strongly partitioned as Xen's, the install program is very unlikely to do anything surprising and even more unlikely to interact badly with the existing system. QEMU also works equally well with all distros and even non-Linux operating systems.
QEMU does have the disadvantage of being slow. Because KQEMU (the kernel acceleration module) isn't compatible with Xen, you'll have to fall back to software-only ...
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