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Re: [Xen-users] migrate existing non-xen system to a VM? 
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Thanks, and...
Nick Couchman wrote:
 
0 ->  before you shut it down, update kernel/initrd such that you have a kernel 
and initrd combo that will boot successfully on Xen.  In many distributions, all 
this requires is installing the kernel-xen package, or something similar, and 
you'll be good to go.
 
great point!
 partitions on the left are on the current (physical) system --> intended 
partitions on the new VM (except for boot)
/boot - raided volume -->  xen setup on new machine
/swap -->  drbd device on new machine, mounted in VM
/ -->  drbd device on new machine, mounted in VM
/backup (another volume) ->  drbd device mounted in VM
 
Are these partitions in the VM (domU), or on the Xen hosts themselves?  If 
these are the domU partitions, just using an imaging tool (Ghost, FOG, 
PartImage, etc.) to copy the entire disk over to a virtual hard disk (LVM, 
file-based, etc.).
 
good idea....
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord>  practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
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