[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-users] question on migrating disk from current server to HVM
I'm trying to decide the best way to migrate the contents of a disk on a live server to a hardware virtual machine under Xen. The live server has an 83G disk with three partitions: 100M /boot with ext2 2G swap 81G / with ext3On the Xen server, I have a hardware RAID storage with LVM2 running. I have created a logical volume for the new HVM. Here's the question: Is there any way to copy the disk contents and/or structure from the live server to the logical volume without having to boot an OS and format the logical volume first? I've run a sample dd command on /dev/hda on the live server, piping it through gzip to a spare disk. It compresses down to about 8G. I'm just not sure what to do with it now that I have it. Can I simply uncompress, pipe through dd and send it to the device for the logical volume? Any good examples out there for this? Thanks. LT _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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