On 03/31/2011 02:38 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > A while ago I got great instructions from Pasi for migrating standalone > systems to *xen*. However, now I have decided to use KVM instead, which > raises a new question: > > How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? > > I know a two-step way to do it: > standalone system -> xen pv guest > xen pv guest -> KVM pv guest > > I read that xen -> KVM migration is trivially easy. > > But is there an easier (one-step) way to do this? > > - Jussi > I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot clonezilla in the VM and restore from the images. -- Benjamin Franz