Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] XCP/XenServer Migration utility now available at xen.org

[Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mmmm... Good point but, the LVM within the domU is very useful if you resize (append more blocks to the xvda) the virtual disc... Don't you think?!

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Well,

The partition scheme in your VM is the same before and after the migration.

I think any different behaviour is outside the scope of this tool I think.

And LVM within a DomU is of limited value anyway :)

 

2010/3/15 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

Okay!

 Well, since you asked for a feature request! Here's one!

* Allow re-create the partition scheme.

Cheers!  :-D

Thiago

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

If your OSS Xen VMs don't have LVM, then they wont have LVM in XenServer after they are migrated.

2010/3/15 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

Okay but, and my partition scheme?
Remember that within the XenServer, my domUs have its own LVM...
I can change the fstab and grub's menu files before run xva.py but, how to make the partitions and the LVM vg / lv on the new domU?

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry,

sed -i.bak -e 's/xvda1/xvda/g' -e  's/xvda2/xvdb/g' /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab /mnt/tmp/boot/grub/menu.lst (or grub.conf)

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

No im afraid not.

YOU have to make these changes to menu.lst and fstab before migration.

If your VMs are the exact same, this should be easily scripted. i.e.

vmdisk="/dev/xen/vm1root"

mount $vmdisk /mnt/tmp

sed -i.bak -e 's/xvda1/xvda/g' -e  's/xvda2/xvdb/g' /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab

umount /mnt/tmp

2010/3/15 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

So, your script can make a new partition scheme and a new fstab for my VMs before stream it to the XenServer?
Because I have more than 100 VMs to copy!  :-/

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Wow, what a pain :)

2010/3/15 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

Yeah! Sure!

 Today I'm doing this work manually... I mean, to copy a VM from open source Xen to the XenServer I do:

1- stop the VM on my debian dom0;
2- mount its root file system under /mnt/source;
3- export it via NFS;
4- At the XenServer, I boot the sysrescuecd (a live system);
5- fdisk the /dev/sda;
6- create the LVM volumes;
7- mount /dev/vg01/root under /mnt/target;
8- mount /dev/sda1 under /mnt/target/boot;
9- mount the debian dom0 nfs server under /mnt/source;
10- cp /mnt/source/* /mnt/target/
11- edit the /etc/fstab and the grub's menu;
12- shutdown the VM;
13- Convert it from HVM to PVM;
14- start the VM;

Thanks,
Thiago

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

If you change xvda1 to xvda, change xvda2 to xvdb it will work fine.

Change references in /boot/grub/menu.lst of xvda1 to xvda

Change references in /etc/fstab of xvda1 to xvda, and xvda2 to xvdb.

Understand?

2010/3/15 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

Exactly!

 The first one is for my domU hosted at my open source Xen (powered by Debian), the second fstab, is the new one, used for my guests hosted at my XenServers.

Thanks!
Thiago

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm confused,

You supply 2 fstabs there, one using LVM, one without. Which one is it?

2010/3/15 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi David!

 My Xen domU in my open source dom0 (Debian) have this configuration file:

----
bootloader  = '/usr/bin/pygrub'
extra       = 'console=hvc0'
memory      = '64'
disk        = [
                  'phy:/dev/HyperVG01/guest01-root,xvda1,w',
                  'phy:/dev/HyperVG01/guest01-swap,xvda2,w',
              ]
name        = 'guest01'
vif         = [ 'mac=00:01:64:4b:0d:2e, vifname=guest01-eth0, bridge=eth0' ]
>on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
----

 My guest01 /etc/fstab file:

proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/xvda1      /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/xvda2      none            swap    sw              0       0

 BUT, this is for open source Xen domU, within the XenServer, the guest01 should be:

proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/xvda1      /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
/dev/mapper/vdwuaf1-root /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/mapper/vdwuaf1-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0

 And the partition table of the guest01:

guest01:~# fdisk -lu /dev/xvda

Disk /dev/xvda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders, total 16777216 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009c181

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/xvda1   *          63      498014      248976   83  Linux
/dev/xvda2          498015    16771859     8136922+  8e  Linux LVM

 You tool can recreate the partition scheme? Or it just copy the domU as is?
 I have many others domU like this to copy...

Thanks!
Thiago

2010/3/15 David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

If anyone has feature requests, direct them here.

The next feature i'll be working on is supporting kernels loaded from the Dom0. The kernel images will have to be copied to the XenServer/XCP Dom0.

2010/3/12 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>

Really COOL!!! I'm doing all this work manually until now!

On 12 March 2010 15:33, David Markey <david.markey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

A new python based migration utility for migrating your xend virtual machines to XCP  is now available at:

http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_projects.html

It can generate XVAs from your xend based HVM and paravirtualised virtual machines.
It can also steam your VM directly to a XenServer/XCP host over HTTP or HTTPS.

Please read the README for pointers and guidelines on how to prepare your VMs for migration to XCP. Most PV based virtual machines will need some preparation work.


Thanks to Stephen Spector and Dave Scott!

Enjoy,

David

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