Re: [Xen-users] Convert physical server to VM

["John T. Yocum" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could mount the partitions, and then copy over the files using cp. A 
little slow, but it's free.
--John

Simon Gao wrote:
> Joseph Smith wrote:
> > I would dd the server's hard drive to an image file. Its probably the most 
> > straightforward way.
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=server.img
> >
> > use your servers hard drive device node in place of /dev/sda
> >
> > then write up a domU config:
> >
> > # general
> > name    = "newVM";
> > memory  = 1024;
> >
> > # booting
> > kernel  = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.x-xenU";
> > ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-ifyouhaveone";
> > builder = "linux";
> >
> > # virtual harddisk
> > disk = ['tap:aio:/xvmstore/images/vmThree.img,sda,w'];
> > root = "/dev/sda1 ro"; #or whatever your root partition is
> >
> >
> > -Joe
> >   
> It's hard to use dd if the drive is very large. When making an VM, I
> only want to system OS/Apps in one vms image file.  Extra disk space can
> be made available from second vm image or partition.
>
> Simon
>
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