2008/5/16 Luke S Crawford <lsc at prgmr.com>: > "Sergio Belkin" <sebelk at gmail.com> writes: >> dd if=/dev/sdaX of=fedora6.img (on FC6) > > of course, you can't do this if you are booting off /dev/sdaX- boot > into a rescue disk or something. > >> and then on Centos 5.1 >> >> dd if=fedora6.img of=/dev/sdaX >> >> Could I run this system into Xen? > > assuming you sized things correctly, yes. > > Personally I find it easier to just make .tar.gz files of the entire system. > > A few things you need to do to the fc image before you start. > > you want to install the xen kernel and make an entry for it in PyGrub > before you move to step 1. fix the /etc/fstab to match what you call your > disks in the xm config file. make sure the initrd you make has > --preload xenblk > > make sure you run a getty on the console (for CentOS, the console is xvc0 > I assume it is the same for fc) so add xvc0 to /etc/securetty and run > a getty on it in /etc/inittab > > after this you can make the image as above. > > your config file needs to be something like this: > bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" > memory = 512 > name = "fc_test" > vif = [] > disk = [ > 'phy:/dev/sdaX,sda,w' > ] > Thanks Luke, and what should in order to convert real partitions in virtual disks? Thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -