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

[Simon Gao <gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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