Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
humm, I am quite sure that it was a linux machine that I saw migrated - perhaps their free version only does Windows so far, but i am quite sure linux machines are in the pipeline.
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?
I suppose if you knew what modules you are going to need, then doing it at the same time as the VM is created would be possible. If not, then its a bit of a mismatch. Perhaps something to take on as a small weekend project ?