[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Tool to migrate xm/xend managed domains into xl.cfg files
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:33 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On 02.04.2014 15:42, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:49:48PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote: > >>> Does anybody have such a tool which could be shared? I know with a recent > >>> patch > >>> in libvirt (1.2.3~rc1) it is possible to create libvirt xml files from the > >>> config.sxp ones. > >>> Just was wondering whether there might be a need of having something > >>> similar for > >>> those that used to use xm/xend managed domains without anything else than > >>> the > >>> xen-utils. > >>> > >> > >> With libvirt you can do at least: > >> > >> virsh dumpxml vm_name > /tmp/a.xml > >> virsh domxml-to-native xen-xm /tmp/a.xml > vmname.cfg > >> > >> Which gives you xm/xend text config files.. which should be mostly > >> compatible with xl cfgfiles. > > > > Right, you also could do a domxml-from-native xen-sxpr <file> and re-export > > that > > with domxml-to-native xen-xm as you said. > > The reason I am asking or looking into it is trying to figure out whether I > > can > > offer a nice way of don some of that automatically for people on upgrade > > (and > > there might be some that don't have libvirt installed as well). > > Would users really want that translation done automatically? I'd > rather be told how to do it myself so I can check the outcome; but > maybe I'm a bit strange that way. :-) > > In theory it seems like someone who knew what they were doing with > python should be able to rip out the sxp parsing stuff from xend, Does xend store its managed domains as sxp? I thought I'd seem piles of XML relating to the XenAPI (== managed domains) under /var somewhere... Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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