On 24/06/10 7:17 AM, "Poh Yong Hwang" <yongsan at 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