<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Dennis J. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisml@conversis.de">dennisml@conversis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
I'm thinking about how to go about migrating our Xen VMs to KVM. Migrating<br>
the configuraton should be easy using the virsh dumpxml/define commands but<br>
what is the best way to transfer the (logical volume based) images without<br>
too much downtime for the guest system?<br>
<br>
Can rsync operate on logical volumes? If so I could potentially use "dd" to<br>
transfer an initial copy of the image to the destination host and then shut<br>
down the guest, rsync the logical volumes which shouldn't take too long as<br>
not much data has to be transfered thanks to the initial "dd" and then boot<br>
the guest on the new machine.<br>
<br>
Is something like this possible or would you do something different?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Dennis</blockquote><div><br>Can't you just use the LV in place with KVM?<br><br><br clear="all">Grant McWilliams<br><br>Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Windows." <br>
Now they have two problems.<br> </div></div>