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Creating a Xen DomU Guest
Installation
First, we must prepare a Slackware install in a virtual machine. You could always do this in Xen itself, however I recommend using something else, e.g. VirtualBox, KVM, VMWare or something because I suspect it will be faster. My experience of HVM (non-paravirtualised) Xen is that it is not as fast as KVM/VirtualBox, and we will need to recompile a kernel for this.
Select at a minimum disk sets A, AP, D, K, L and N sets. Install everything. You can try with less if you like, this is the way I've tested.
Initrd
Now we must create an initrd.
# cd /boot # mkinitrd -c
And of course, add it to LILO
image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sda1 label = Linux read-only initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
Sources