Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

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.