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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...