On 6/21/07, Davide Corio <davide.corio@redomino.com>
wrote:> What''s the best way to virtualize a physical system?
>
> I''m trying to virtualize a server running an old Debian Sarge.
> I cannot shutdown the system, so i cannot dump the fs.
rsync does not require a reboot.
Still, at some time you will be required doing a shutdown and a boot
on the new system
> I tryied to do that by copying all files/dirs via ssh (compressing
them> with tar zcvpf) and then uncompressing the archive into a mounted lvm
> volume, but it seems that Sarge was using an old version of e2fsprogs
> and it cannot boot due to a ext3 incompatibility problem.
That seems not to have much to do with being not able to shut down a VM.
So, you created the ext3 filesystem from somehwere else, right?
I don''t know the state of ext3 in sarge and the incompatibilities
between sarge and etch - this is a debian-users question.
But I''d try if it works better with plain ext2 - you can add the
journal stuff with the standard sarge tools when the new system is
running.
Henning
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