Concise instructions for installing a CentOS VM on Xen Before you begin, please read this entire guide and visit the other links to make sure this method (using rpmstrap) is what you prefer. The other way involves the use of yum's --installroot option and rpm's --root option. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-04/msg00329.html http://wiki.sisuite.org/BuildingLinuxChroots Prepa