On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:37 AM, <me at tdiehl.org> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Gilberto Nunes wrote: > > Do you get it?? >> > > Yes, I got it working. Turned out it was much simpler than I was making it. > I did not need clonezilla or anything else except rsync. > > What I did was a minimal install of the same os the original machine was > running, and then rsync the original machine over top of the new VM, > excluding > things like fstab, inittab, and other things that are specific to the > hardware. > +1 I've done this exact process myself, but neglected to mention it to you. Can't beat installing off a local mirror and then rsyncing a few small differences (or much less compared the entire install) between the two machines! ;-) > > This allows me to keep the original machine on line until just before I am > ready to kill it off. When I am ready to kill off the old machine and start > the new one I stop all externally accessible services, change the network > config > to reflect the way I want it in production, do 1 last rsync, reboot and I > am live. > > Typical down time has been less than 15 minutes. > > It takes a little tinkering to figure out the stuff that should be > excluded but > once I got that it went well. > That's the fun of it, eh? -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 // -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20140918/4c5f529a/attachment-0006.html>