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RE: [Xen-users] Convert CentOS system to Xen image?

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:54 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> James Pifer wrote:
> > > First of all, you must know, do you want to convert it
> > > to a PV or an HVM Xen domain.
> > 
> > I believe I need to convert to a PV. 
> > 
> > > 
> > > HVM:
> > > 
> > > 1) Just copy image of your server to a logical volume of 
> > > the Xen server LVM or to any other block device.
> > 
> > Is it possible to create an uncompressed image using something like g4l
> > and make use of that image file somehow?
> 
> Watch out for device name changes, like sda->xvda, in you
> configuration.
> 
> How big is the volumes of the source system?
> 
> If they are really big it might be best to kickstart a fresh
> install into a PV, then import the configuration and packages
> from the source system to the new PV.
> 

Not that bit at all. Total used space on the system is about 8 gig, and
I might be able to trim that down. But I don't have free space to create
a separate logical drive. So I would need to do this in an image file. 

Thanks,
James


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