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[Xen-users] Best way to convert pv to hvm?

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Subject: [Xen-users] Best way to convert pv to hvm?
From: Tony Hoyle <tmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:08:29 +0100
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Hi,

I'm trying to convert a number of PV domains to HVM domains. The snag is they're all in separate partitions, so I need to get a unified disk image.

My current plan is to mount the root of dom0 inside a booted domu (single user mode) and dd the entire contents of the virtual disk /dev/sda into a file on the dom0 disk. Is this likely to work? It's gonna be slow I know due to the dom0->domu->dom0 translation but is there perhaps a faster way? I presume xen itself creates a partition table somewhere and if I could get at that and do it entire thing in dom0... is this just a python script generating it at runtime or is it stored somewhere?

Tony


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