Re: P2V for Windows to KVM?

[Chris de Vidal <chris-+A5r7yYOfpK2z7vLlVgmTQ@public.gmane.org>]

--- 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!!

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