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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "( 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/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
