[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > RJ's website says he is (was?) in the process of rewriting virt-p2v. > >> I have a copy in my archive, but how about contacting Richard >> Jones, and asking him for an update or replacement? I'll shuttle it out into public bandwidth and advice you privat

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread Jussi Hirvi
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> > Does anyone have the .iso image of virt-p2v? It is not available anymore >> > through that link. The source is available, but building it requires a >> > *lot* of packages, some of which seem to be hard to find. Good idea, but I begin to be short

[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Does anyone have the .iso image of virt-p2v? It is not available anymore > through that link. The source is available, but building it requires a > *lot* of packages, some of which seem to be hard to find. I have a copy in my archive, but how about contac

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-24 Thread Jussi Hirvi
> Jussi Hirvi writes: > >> > A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone >> > systems to*xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which >> > raises a new question: >> > >> > How to migrate a standalone system to*KVM*? >> > >> > I know a two-step way to

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 21:38 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > > I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of > > the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the > > initial virtual dri

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals,

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-05 Thread Jussi Hirvi
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: >> > I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of >> > the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the >> > initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot >> > clonezil

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of > the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the > initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot > clonezilla in the VM an

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 31.3.2011 12.42, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: > Check this out: > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.1.html Hei, That looks like a very useful tip. - Jussi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 03/31/2011 02:38 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone > systems to *xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which > raises a new question: > > How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? > > I know a two-step way to do it

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Alain Péan
Le 31/03/2011 11:38, Jussi Hirvi a écrit : > A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone > systems to *xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which > raises a new question: > > How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? > > I know a two-step way to do it

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin Thorpe
> > > > How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? > This is probably way outside the scope of this discussion but I used to use VMWare because it could actually boot standard installed drives. Came in useful more than once to get a failed server back online in minutes. _

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread nux
Jussi Hirvi writes: > A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone > systems to *xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which > raises a new question: > > How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? > > I know a two-step way to do it: > standalo

[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Jussi Hirvi
A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone systems to *xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which raises a new question: How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? I know a two-step way to do it: standalone system -> xen pv guest x