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In the preceding chapters of [[Xen Virtualization Essentials]] we looked at a variety of ways of creating the root filesystem for a Xen guest domain (domainU) through the cloning of the root filesystem host operating system.
Instead of cloning the host root filesystem, this chapter will focus on the creation of a Xen guest root filesystem from Linux distribution repositories using the ''yum'' and ''rpm'' tools. It is intended that the following steps works work with any Linux distribution which uses yum and rpm for package management (including Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat).
== An Overview of Repository Based Installation ==
