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Re: [Xen-users] Physical -> Virtual

To: "Davide Corio" <davide.corio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Physical -> Virtual
From: "Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:52:48 +0100
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On 6/21/07, Davide Corio <davide.corio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What's the best way to virtualize a physical system?

I'm trying to virtualize a server running an old Debian Sarge.
I cannot shutdown the system, so i cannot dump the fs.

rsync does not require a reboot.
Still, at some time you will be required doing a shutdown and a boot
on the new system

> I tryied to do that by copying all files/dirs via ssh (compressing them
with tar zcvpf) and then uncompressing the archive into a mounted lvm
volume, but it seems that Sarge was using an old version of e2fsprogs
and it cannot boot due to a ext3 incompatibility problem.

That seems not to have much to do with being not able to shut down a VM.
So, you created the ext3 filesystem from somehwere else, right?

I don't know the state of ext3 in sarge and the incompatibilities
between sarge and etch - this is a debian-users question.

But I'd try if it works better with plain ext2 - you can add the
journal stuff with the standard sarge tools when the new system is
running.

Henning

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