On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:25 PM, SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:21 PM, me@tdiehl.org wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to do p2v and v2v migrations on a Centos 7 kvm host. With previous versions there was virt-p2v but that does not seem to exist with Centos-7.
I realize that if I am using shared storage, I can do live migrations but that does not help with p2v migrations.
Does anyone know what the recommended procedure is for migrating either physical or virtual machines to Centos-7 is?
While maybe not officially recommended, you could rsync [0] the OS over.
If you go this route, boot with a Live DVD and make a tarball, or use "star" to make an SELinux aware tarball. That way, you have a copy to store, label, and unpack into a chroot cage and edit and propagate elsewhere, as needed.
Rsync can be efficient, but transmitting and uncompressing a tarball is *much faster*. Put it in the swap partition temporarily, if you need to.