[CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM
Benjamin Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Thu Mar 31 12:41:13 UTC 2011
On 03/31/2011 02:38 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone
> systems to *xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which
> raises a new question:
>
> How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*?
>
> I know a two-step way to do it:
> standalone system -> xen pv guest
> xen pv guest -> KVM pv guest
>
> I read that xen -> KVM migration is trivially easy.
>
> But is there an easier (one-step) way to do this?
>
> - Jussi
>
I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of
the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the
initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot
clonezilla in the VM and restore from the images.
--
Benjamin Franz
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