WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] p2v

To: deshantm@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] p2v
From: "Paras pradhan" <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:36:32 -0500
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:37:10 -0700
Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=iPHEHO1sVFmXgdQ6iBxokEVerUC9RsDltSOSPHzythw=; b=M8gWU1MJN34w0yI5aS8gTU+MCHI8f9EtIjL+4PZ0NqLYoAHHTZ83FsJQrqGwoR8nTN rfadAwtjCVaShYZs66IcjSXEcy+Tp1PrQhafTpwDotQGF502QWj+A3fVREBXpRK/Pix+ T6VXDi4gGOsJ8hBrTOn4wsX0Ik0q2OqhV4R2c=
Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=dBjDoO4BBpfER+MerojESOSHYly+CmBRbUYyMT5RI8Spmy6CRmttDPJfSP9nx1IGwK aWjM6X0mWS2N3oj/eScukhTActJSrjRKb3jOEKF1P1ZX6vA0DiS9GgNJKcqOiwhZDrgS J8MyU485US24wwzwczgKqLmb55v4J6+zGEYR8=
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1e16a9ed0810291328x30d9afcfv664e7fde8f0c0d3c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <8b711df40810291318o500a9ffds87a928c2f477a244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <1e16a9ed0810291328x30d9afcfv664e7fde8f0c0d3c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need a tool or document which can convert my physical linux machines
> (centOS 5.2, ubunutu 8.04) to para virtualized xen guests.  which tool is
> recommended. Should be free.
>

virt-p2v is coming along nice see:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/

It is also just about as easy to do something like:

boot your physical box from a live CD
install nfs-common
mount an nfs server directory with enough space to store the size of
your hard drive
dd your hard drive to a file to the mounted nfs server directory
make a xen config file that uses that image and passes the kernel and ramdisk

virt-p2v works over SSH, which is also pretty nice and easy to work with.

Hope those ideas help.

Cheers,
Todd

--
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com


virt-p2v creates only fully virt guests if I am not mistaken.. is it?


Paras.
_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>