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. Thanks Paras. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@gmail.com> 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 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@gmail.com> wrote:> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@gmail.com> > 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. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> virt-p2v creates only fully virt guests if I am not mistaken.. is it?Technically yes, but it is just a disk image. If you make your own config file, then you can use the output disk image by passing a PV kernel and ramdisk in the config. Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net http://runningxen.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On October 29, 2008 01:18 pm Paras pradhan wrote:> 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.Pretty much any backup/restore process or server migration process you already have in place can be used. All you are doing is migrating the data from a physical harddrive to a virtual harddrive. The only difference is that you have to create a config file for the VM, instead of just hitting the power button on a physical server. We''ve used dar and rsync with great success for migrating physical servers to Xen and KVM virtual machines, both PV and HVM. There''s nothing special needed. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I have used SystemImager to image a physical box. I then rsync the contents of the image directory to wherever I need it to be (e.g. a sparse file). I then mount it and make the necessary changes (fstab, kernel, etc). This works fairly well for me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Ross Linux Systems Administrator Argonne National Laboratory Computing and Information Systems Phone: 630.252.2600 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paras pradhan 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. > > > Thanks > Paras. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users