An alternative for manually setting the configuration may be the project http://www.UnifiedSessionsManager.org provided by myself.
The contained tool ctys-createConfVM creates complete configurations and partly complete base installations for Linux, BSD, and Solaris on KVM/QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, and of course Xen.
For Xen particularly relocatable configuration files are generated, covering the multi-distribution execution, e.g. by automatic detection of Xen-bridges, and the support including storage of external kernels and initrd.
E.g. 'MAC=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff DIST=CentOS DISTREL=5.5 OS=Linux OSREL=2.6.18 ctys-createConfVM -t xen --label=myVM'
Creates the configuration, a wrapper script, and the VHDD.
I am following your "Simple Virtual Appliances" article on an Ubuntu server 9.10 and get a 404 on the first wget "wget \
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/os/i386/images/xen/initrd.img"
Any suggestions? (I tried both standard and using sudo) the 2gbVirtual disk created exactly as shown in the artical except my MB/s was twice the listed value (not an issue)
