Re: [CentOS-virt] (KVM) How can I migrate VM in a non shared storage environment?

On 24/06/10 7:17 AM, "Poh Yong Hwang" yongsan@gmail.com wrote:

I have a server running CentOS 5.5 with KVM capabilities. I need to migrate all the VMs to another server with the exact same hardware specs. The problem is it is running on individual harddisks, not shared storage. What is the best way to migrate to minimise downtime?

I've had good success using dd and nc (netcat) to copy the contents of a disk or disk image from one machine to another, and verifying the copy was successful with a md5sum or sha1sum of both the original and copied disk.

Kelvin