Re: [Xen-users] migrate existing non-xen system to a VM?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, and...

Nick Couchman wrote:
> 0 ->  before you shut it down, update kernel/initrd such that you have a kernel 
> and initrd combo that will boot successfully on Xen.  In many distributions, all 
> this requires is installing the kernel-xen package, or something similar, and 
> you'll be good to go.
>
>    
great point!
> > /boot - raided volume -->  xen setup on new machine
> > /swap -->  drbd device on new machine, mounted in VM
> > / -->  drbd device on new machine, mounted in VM
> > /backup (another volume) ->  drbd device mounted in VM
> >      
> Are these partitions in the VM (domU), or on the Xen hosts themselves?  If 
> these are the domU partitions, just using an imaging tool (Ghost, FOG, 
> PartImage, etc.) to copy the entire disk over to a virtual hard disk (LVM, 
> file-based, etc.).
>
>    
partitions on the left are on the current (physical) system --> intended 
partitions on the new VM (except for boot)
good idea....

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