Besides nstalling paravirtualized guest systems, Xen can also host fully-virtualized guests on machines with appropriate hardware. This means that you can run unaltered operating systems like CentOS 3 or Microsoft Windows.

This howto describes how you can install a fully-virtualized guest, without using virt-manager, or its console variant virt-install. Often, users require more customizations than these tools provide, so it is usually better to use the tools that lie underneath. This howto uses the virsh tool from the libvirt package, which is a generic tool for management of virtual machines.