On 07/27/17 05:05 PM, Daniel Kjar wrote:
My old hardware is dying and I want to move my system to a virtualized environment. I have been digging for
Do fresh install on new hardware or in that VM and then do create new BE (beadm), right after , destroy it's datasets (under ROOT) and then zfs send/zfs receive your working dataset zfs snapshot to a new machine. It should work almost all the time. Maybe you would need to install illumso loader in target BE after 'zfs receive'. In doubt, install same OI version you have on source machine you migrate from.
Regarding ZFS and it's benefits, I also think it is best used on real hardware, to exactly protect you from hardware problems, but also you can use zfs snapshots to make timed remote replications and backup, wherever you run it.
Also if you use illumos/OI on hardware and use virtualization under illumos as the main system (kvm, kvm in zones, VirtualBox), you can use zfs volumes for VMs and make shapshots off them outside of VMs. Hardly there is the better and more easy way then make snapshots of zfs volumes. (zfs create -V )
_______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
