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suggestions sought for migrating from Xen to K8

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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 16:43:18 +0000

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Thread-topic: suggestions sought for migrating from Xen to K8

Hi Folks,

I'm about to migrate a VM from Xen, running on our own server, to K8 - probably running on Digital Ocean. Any hints on how to do this as easily as possible would be much appreciated.

Basic setup:

A legacy system that we're retiring
Xen 3.0
Server and VM are running Linux 2.6.26-2-xen_686
Root & swap are mounted on DRBD volumes (v 8.0.4)
Yes - it's all ancient, and temporary while we update things.

Looking for a simple way to convert the vm to an image that can run as a Kubelet, and for migrating the DRBD volume to a generic block storage service.

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much,

Miles Fidelman

Miles Fidelman, ThisOldNeighborhood.Net

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