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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Multiple instance from one Xen image/partition
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:44:15 -0700
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Ketan Pandya wrote:
> Is it possible to have non-persistence mode for domains in Xen similar 
> to VMWare non-persistence mode (VMWare GSX) such that number of domains 
> can be instantiated from one Xen domain-U disk image?

I am not sure about that, but I have found that modding a debian or 
gentoo root image to boot from readonly, and then mount the parts that 
need to be writable from tmpfs or nfs, works quite well.

Jacob