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2006 Feb 07
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Converting a standalone system into a Xen guest?
I''ve got a couple of old, but working, SuSE 7 machines which
I''d like to transfer to Xen guests.
What would be the best way of going about this?
The most obvious approach I can think of is to create a large
disk file and do the eqivilent of:
dd if=/dev/hda of=- | netcat | dd if=- of=/home/xen/host.img
Is that liable to work? Or would I be better doing something
else? (Like making a filesystem in a file, or LVM partition, then
using rsync to sync? The problem I see here is that I''d have to
exclude /dev, and...