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Re: [Xen-users] RHEL VMs in HyperV to Xen


  • To: Edward Smith <bm.unpersonal@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Miguel <miguelrvs@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:40:27 -0600
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You can try booting the VM from an .iso live disc and using the above
trick to copy the entire FS at the block level to a premade
partition/logical volume.


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Miguel Ruiz Velasco Sobrino



On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:18, Edward Smith <bm.unpersonal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> first of all I appreciate your suggestion. But I can't do this with the VMs
> running on Hyper-V.
> I need shutdown all VMs on the Hyper-V and them move them to the Xen
> Hypervisor.
> The idea is copy the vhd or convert it with something... mount this disk??
> to a lvm in dom0 and boot the VMs...
> Any ideas???
>
> Or other procedures, ideas, suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 21:33 +0100 schrieb Edward Smith:
>> > Hello,
>> > I have several RHEL VMs running in the MS HyperV2, but now I need move
>> > them to Xen hypervisor.
>> > In the MS HyperV I have a vhd for each VM.
>> > In Xen hypervisor I want use a logical volume for each machine.
>> >
>> > So I need to convert images?
>> > There are any procedure that I can follow? because I'm not really
>> > familiarized with Xen.
>>
>> This will work for you....
>>
>> Shutdown ALL Services in the VMs on the HyperV-Box, like mysql and
>> whatever because of "opened Files" which could cause a FS-Error....
>>
>> All Steps below are done on the dom0....
>>
>> Create a LVol on the XEN-Box
>>
>>  lvcreate -L 15G -n VM1-Disk $VG
>>
>> Create a FS
>>
>>  eg.
>>  # mkfs.ext3 /dev/$VG/VM1-Disk
>>
>> Mount the LVol in Dom0
>>
>>  # mount /dev/$VG/VM1-Disk /mnt
>>
>> Copy the entire /-FS from your Hyper-V-VM to the dom0
>>
>> On the Dom0:
>>
>>  # rsync -avzH --numeric-ids -e ssh root@OLD-IP:/* /mnt/
>>
>> Create a xen-config for your new Host and boot it up....
>>
>> >
>> > I appreciate any help,
>> > Thanks,
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> > Edward
>> >
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