On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:48:17PM +0200, David Hláčik wrote: > Hi, > > first i will explain my experiment : > > We have ESX server running virtual machines .We want to migrate to XEN. As i > did not found any tool for transfering ESX to for example real server, or > better to XEN --> please correct me if i am wrong , i found following approach > : > > i will inside virtual machine on ESX boot from Live-CD of CentOS , using dd i > will transfer images trought scp to CentOs machine with xen. I believe this one > should work, machines on ESX are Windows2003 Servers. > So what i need to find is how to write a command which will transfer image > trought scp , but for faster transfer also compress it before using tar, or > gzip. > > so my input will be dd if=/dev/sda1 , my output will be gzipped or tarred image > on second side. sda1.img.gz > dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip -c | ssh host "cat > output.gz" Sanity check on that? If you're not worried about security of this transfer, might be faster to use NFS or something. Ray