Re: [Xen-users] existing linux install and xen

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Brian Krusic wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> What's the best way to take an already running linux install and either 
> paravirtualize or fully virtualize it?
On some of the newer xens they actually have a utility to do this
but if you just have vanilla xen 3.1 or so,
1) rsync the current contents of your bare-metal machine to a new
partition on the machine that is running a xen-enabled kernel
2) Mount the partition, chroot, and install a xen-enabled domU kernel
 in the partition
3) Change network files as necessary to show you are on a xen instance.
4) start up and go.

Steve Timm

> I've got a linux box that has too many custom installs, etc... that would 
> take forever to redo.
> My goal would be to move it to the hypervisor machine thats running a few 
> guests.
> - Brian
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