Re: [Xen-users] moving a real system to a Xen-hosted (HVM) one - how?

["Reinhard Brandstaedter" <Reinhard.Brandstaedter@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 15:33 -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> I see, you're physically moving Windows' C: D: etc. drives to Xen
> servers hardware. This is akin to moving any installed Windows system
> from vendor A's model 1 with motherboard B, host adapter C, and drive
> model D to vendor Z's model 2 with motherboard Y, host adapter X, and
> drive model W ..... As I mentioned before, this is probably documented
> on www.microsoft.com somewhere... Or, is the good old
> over-the-network-copy method an option?

I'd suggest a Imaging software like Symantec Ghost or similar to clone
the real ones and apply the image to Xen Guests / LVM disks.
If you are using Windows 2003 you could also use Automated System
Recovery (ASR) and built in backup strategies.
I know VMWare ESX has a tool for live-migration (in sense of migration
physical machines to virtual ones) where it basically copies all files
from a physical machine to a virtual one during the machine is running.

Reinhard


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