P2V for Windows to KVM?

P2V for Windows to KVM?

[Chris de Vidal]

Google couldn't help me find what I want (unless I'm searching wrong).

I would like to set up a disaster recovery box offsite.  I would like to have incremental P2V
snapshots sent every so often to a KVM-based Windows virtual machine.  It would be powered off
most of the time.  I would only send incremental snapshots, minimizing bandwidth.  In the event of
a disaster, I boot up the VM and keep going where the last snapshot left off.

Any KVM-friendly P2V solutions?

By the way, I'm not subscribed to the list, but according to your website, I don't have to be :-)

Thanks!

CD

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Re: P2V for Windows to KVM?

[Avi Kivity]

Chris de Vidal wrote:
> Google couldn't help me find what I want (unless I'm searching wrong).
>
> I would like to set up a disaster recovery box offsite.  I would like to have incremental P2V
> snapshots sent every so often to a KVM-based Windows virtual machine.  It would be powered off
> most of the time.  I would only send incremental snapshots, minimizing bandwidth.  In the event of
> a disaster, I boot up the VM and keep going where the last snapshot left off.
>
> Any KVM-friendly P2V solutions?
>   

I don't know of any incremental P2V solution, but if you can run the 
live server on kvm, it would be pretty easy to script lvm to snapshot 
every so often, and rsync (or maybe an lvm-aware thing) the images away.

In general, Xen-friendly P2V should also be kvm-friendly, as the two 
hypervisors share the hardware model (qemu).


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Re: P2V for Windows to KVM?

[Chris de Vidal]

--- Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Chris de Vidal wrote:
> > Google couldn't help me find what I want (unless I'm searching wrong).
> >
> > I would like to set up a disaster recovery box offsite.  I would like to have incremental P2V
> > snapshots sent every so often to a KVM-based Windows virtual machine.  It would be powered off
> > most of the time.  I would only send incremental snapshots, minimizing bandwidth.  In the
> event of
> > a disaster, I boot up the VM and keep going where the last snapshot left off.
> >
> > Any KVM-friendly P2V solutions?
> >   
> 
> I don't know of any incremental P2V solution, but if you can run the 
> live server on kvm, it would be pretty easy to script lvm to snapshot 
> every so often, and rsync (or maybe an lvm-aware thing) the images away.
> 
> In general, Xen-friendly P2V should also be kvm-friendly, as the two 
> hypervisors share the hardware model (qemu).

That's great information, thanks!!

CD

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