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xen-users
Re: [Xen-users] question on migrating disk from current server to HVM
xenlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm trying to decide the best way to migrate the contents of a disk on
a live server to a hardware virtual machine under Xen.
The live server has an 83G disk with three partitions:
100M /boot with ext2
2G swap
81G / with ext3
On the Xen server, I have a hardware RAID storage with LVM2 running.
I have created a logical volume for the new HVM.
Here's the question: Is there any way to copy the disk contents
and/or structure from the live server to the logical volume without
having to boot an OS and format the logical volume first?
I've run a sample dd command on /dev/hda on the live server, piping it
through gzip to a spare disk. It compresses down to about 8G. I'm
just not sure what to do with it now that I have it. Can I simply
uncompress, pipe through dd and send it to the device for the logical
volume?
Just dd if=<uncompressed file> of=/dev/mapper/logical-volume would work?
--Sadique
Any good examples out there for this?
Thanks.
LT
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