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Re: [Xen-users] Manual p2v


  • To: Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:22:01 -0400
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For my manual p2v I just generally boot a livecd (knoppix in my case),
and then dd the local storage exactly as is to a NFS share or using
dd/netcat. Then you just need to create a matching cfg, and then do
the proper tweaks for the os in question.

- chris

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am converting few physical machines to xen virtual machines. The virt-p2v
> requires my physical machines to shut down. These servers are centos /
> redhat 5.x.  I will be using tap:aio. How do I create an img file from my
> partitions? some has 1 HDD and some has 2 or more.
>
> Thanks!
> Paras.
>
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