On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Dennis J. <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? Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Windows." Now they have two problems. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20091012/2d13a70c/attachment-0006.html>