[Xen-users] question on migrating disk from current server to HVM

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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 ext3

On 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


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