RE: [Xen-users] Migrating DomUs from file VBD to LVM Backend

["Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Reinhard Brandstädter
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:25 AM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Migrating DomUs from file VBD to LVM Backend
> 
> Hello,
> 
> what would be the easiest and fastest way to migrate a file 
> based DomU to a 
> LVM based DomU. Given that the file contains a partition 
> table + partitions.
> 
> I tried with an dummy approach:
> 
> dd if=/path/to/file.img of=/dev/volumegroup/logical-volume.
> 
> That gives me a logical volume that xm create refuses to use....

What format is file.img, is it a sparse file created with dd, or
is it a qcow qemu file?

-Ross


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