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RE: [Xen-users] Migrating DomUs from file VBD to LVM Backend

To: Reinhard Brandstädter <reinhard.brandstaedter@xxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Migrating DomUs from file VBD to LVM Backend
From: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:42:39 -0400
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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Reinhard Brandstädter
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Migrating DomUs from file VBD to LVM Backend
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> Hello,
> 
> what would be the easiest and fastest way to migrate a file 
> based DomU to a 
> LVM based DomU. Given that the file contains a partition 
> table + partitions.
> 
> I tried with an dummy approach:
> 
> dd if=/path/to/file.img of=/dev/volumegroup/logical-volume.
> 
> That gives me a logical volume that xm create refuses to use....

What format is file.img, is it a sparse file created with dd, or
is it a qcow qemu file?

-Ross


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