Re: [Xen-users] copying a vm to a different machine?

[Geoff Kirk <geoff.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not going to say this is best way but i done this recently.

1st of all rsync the host over, i snapshot the running domU mount it 
(the snapshot) then rsync to a formatted LVM volume on the other host. I 
use this method for hourly/daily/weekly backups and the script goes like 
this.
   lvremove -f /dev/lvmhdc1/mysql.hourly
   lvcreate -s -L1G -n mysql.hourly /dev/lvmhdc1/mysql
   mount /dev/lvmhdc1/mysql.hourly /backups/mysql.hourly
   rsync -azH /backups/mysql.hourly/ 192.168.0.15:/backups/mysql.hourly/
   umount /backups/mysql.hourly

That as suggests removed the last snapshot, makes a new one then copies 
changes over to the other host. I dare not say this is failsafe with a 
running domU but its not let me down yet.
Geoff.

Mike H wrote:
> What's the proper way of doing this? I have a vm that I keep shut off 
> as a template on one machine. I'd like to push it out to other xen 
> hosts. What is the best way of doing this?
> Thanks
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