Re: [Xen-users] p2v

["Paras pradhan" <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need a tool or document which can convert my physical linux machines
> (centOS 5.2, ubunutu 8.04) to para virtualized xen guests.  which tool is
> recommended. Should be free.
>

virt-p2v is coming along nice see:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/

It is also just about as easy to do something like:

boot your physical box from a live CD
install nfs-common
mount an nfs server directory with enough space to store the size of
your hard drive
dd your hard drive to a file to the mounted nfs server directory
make a xen config file that uses that image and passes the kernel and ramdisk

virt-p2v works over SSH, which is also pretty nice and easy to work with.

Hope those ideas help.

Cheers,
Todd

--
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

virt-p2v creates only fully virt guests if I am not mistaken.. is it?

Paras.

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