On 10/12/2009 06:17 PM, Grant McWilliams wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de > <mailto:dennisml at conversis.de>> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm thinking about how to go about migrating our Xen VMs to KVM. > Migrating > the configuraton should be easy using the virsh dumpxml/define > commands but > what is the best way to transfer the (logical volume based) images > without > too much downtime for the guest system? > > Can rsync operate on logical volumes? If so I could potentially use > "dd" to > transfer an initial copy of the image to the destination host and > then shut > down the guest, rsync the logical volumes which shouldn't take too > long as > not much data has to be transfered thanks to the initial "dd" and > then boot > the guest on the new machine. > > Is something like this possible or would you do something different? > > Regards, > Dennis > > > Can't you just use the LV in place with KVM? I may be wrong about this but isn't running KVM on top of the Xen hypervisor a problem? Maybe this has changed but I thought in order to be able to use KVM you first have to disable the Xen hypervisor and boot into the regular Kernel. Regards, Dennis