Karanbir Singh wrote:
While still on the same subject of upgrades and testing etc, if someone is creating VM's to migrate a real machine into take a look at vmware's Converter tool ( url: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ ). I've not used it myself, but heard from people who have that it does what one would expect from such a tool, and handles most network issues / drive and driver issues fairly cleanly.
That's for windows. With Linux you can use most of the usual backup/ restore procedures that you would use with physical machines (tar,cpio, rsync, etc.) and you have to deal with the same problems of getting a working disk driver in the initrd image and installing grub that you would have with real machines. Is there a generic tool to do those two things easier than booting an install CD in rescue mode and doing it by hand?