I've recently been appointed to create some VMs for
production use, and went gung ho into making a KVM based VM instead of
finding out what our production server uses.
I've only recently found out though that our own servers use
Xensource OS, and don't look like they're going to be upgraded in the
near future. So for the moment, I'm stuck with either two choices-
attempting to convert the KVM VM into a Xen VM, or rebuilding what I
have into a new Xen VM.
Being the lazy person I am, I would rather not have to rebuild the
VM. I've looked for some documentation on a procedure to do this, but
the only thing I can come up with is an ancient article with some vague
instructions.
So this is my question- can one migrate a KVM running on a KVM kernel to a Xen kernel? And if so, how?
Some stats for you;
I built the KVM under CentOS 6 x64 kernel is 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. The guest was installed with a CentOS6 64bit and has the same kernel.
The KVM config is here ( http://pastebin.com/yAYAgi2Q ), saving you from the madness that is unformatted email-xml.
Xen is built on a CentOS 5.7 i686 w/2.6.18-238.el5xen kernel. (also I'll make a 32bit test KVM image since you have to be a madman to think 64b will run on a para-virt 32b machine). The OS on the Guest is CentOS 5.6 w/ a 2.6.18-238.el5xen
Xen configs are here ( http://pastebin.com/9eaFP7HP )
Need anything else?
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