Re: [Xen-users] P2V question

[Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Xen-users] P2V question
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 1:54 PM
> I am looking at virtualizing a few
> CentOS 5.4 and Fedora 11 servers (all 64-bit) here at work
> onto a brand new shiny Xen 3.4.2 CentOS 5.4 machine. To move
> the physical machine to a virtual machine should it be as
> easy as
> 1. Setup the LVM LV to house the disk on the xen server
> 2. Boot the physical machine from a live/rescue cd and use
> dd to copy the disk over to the LV on the xen machine.
> 3. Mount the LV and change the grub.conf, fstab, and update
> the kernel to one that will do paravirt
> 4. Setup the guest.xml file and boot
> 

The linked file is a dump of the relevant configs you mentioned above.
The traced domU guest is C5 x86_64 with a paravirtual kernel-xen. 

Unlike Ubuntu and Fedora, but like opensuse, Centos uses a xen kernel in domU. 
The others use a pv_ops kernel.

guest.xml implies using libvirt. You can survive without libvirt and use
the xen-tools (xm).

-Notice that all hypervisor (xen.gz) references are gone from fstab.
-Use labels for your /root and /home
-xennet and xenblk.ko are the pivotal PV drivers (xennet is in kernel)
-your bootloader is pygrub
-pygrub can be dryrun in dom0 pointed to your domU LVM (for test)
-your PV kernel is kernel-xen (this is worth repeating)

My guest config (C564.py) networks to the dom0 manual bridge. So the
xend-config.sxp in dom0 has (network-script network-bridge) commented out and 
only
(network-script network-dummy)

is uncommented.

-- 
Mark



http://www.tlviewer.org/fostats/c564_pv.txt


      

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