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Re: [Xen-users] Convert CentOS system to Xen image?
 
 
 On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:41 AM, James Pifer < jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
Attempted to do this using netcat + ssh and here's my next problem. The 
CentOS server is using LVM, so instead of getting an img file of around 
8 gig that I expected, I got one that is 18 gig, or the size of the LV. 
 
I tried it anyway and I get a valid boot sector not found. 
 
Any suggestions?  Xen uses a partition within a partiton.  If you are going from a real
system to a xen and they are both on lvms do something like
  lvcreate -n xenBoot -L <a little bigger than the real servers lvm>G /dev/VolGroup00 
fdisk /dev/VolGroup00/xenBoot   create a primary partion
  kpartx -a /dev/VolGroup/xendBoot  <this will make the partition visible to dom0 in /dev/mapper/xenBoot1
  dd if=/dev/VolGroup/<your real boot volume> of=/dev/mapper/xenBoot1 
  
 
  
 
Thanks, 
James 
 
 
  --  Joe Royall 407-401-2007
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