From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Geis Subject: physical migration of older machines Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:20:47 -0500 Message-ID: <474430AF.9080807@pagestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org I have an AMD 4800+ machine with 2 GIG RAM. I have OLD machines that I want to virtualize and then TURN OFF. The old machines are redhat 7.3, redhat 9, centos 4 i386. I am using centos 5 x86_64. I need to have the OLD machines migrated to the virtual image. What is the BEST way to do that??? Thats my big question. Below is what I have tried and not been successful. I did not find a FAQ on this... Thanks, Jerry ---------------------------- I have the old disk and I created a 10GIG image and installed the 7.3, 9 and centos 4. Now I want to make sure the new image matches the physical image. I mounted the image as: mount -t ext3 -o loop,offset=32256 Image.redhat7.3.img /mnt/image then I executed tar --exclude ./boot --exclude --exclude ./proc --exclude ./dev -cvf - . | ssh root-Q0ErXNX1RuZ17XPQcNv0jw@public.gmane.org "( cd /mnt/image ; tar xvpf -)" on the physical machine to copy to my host. This seemed to work but on booting the file system is corrupt. I did umount /mnt/image before booting the VM. I have not tried Ghost as the physical disk on these machines is minimum of 100GIG and I dont want VM images of this size. 10GIG is all I really need. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/