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I had thought about this one.

If you have virtio drivers installed then its less likely.

If you donât, then it should be possible, youâll have to convert the image to a RAW image before running it through the tool.

From: Marco Sinhoreli [mailto:msinhore@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 March 2010 20:33
To: David Markey; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] XCP/XenServer Migration utility now available at xen.org

Other doubt: Could I migrate a KVM VM to XCP?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Marco Sinhoreli <msinhore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,

Could I migrate a Citrix XenServer VM to XCP as well?

Cheers,

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 - ããããã <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 - ããããã <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 - ããããã <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 - ããããã <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 - ããããã <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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