Re: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen
a weird little LAMP (weird fro the tasks its doing more than install) lots of little things installed some of which are not in the normal repos i have found. and it started as a dev box and then was moved to production as the tools were intensely popular. The Xenserver is getting decommissioned in

Re: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread Lisa Kachold
User boxen only? Development system or server? Each includes a little variation, but KitePilot wins the award on this one. Clear as mud? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com < kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: > Option 3 will not work if the machine is running, add I think dd

Re: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Option 3 will not work if the machine is running, add I think dd is a can of worms... I have done this some 921752163 times, so here is my cookbook: 1.- Boot both puters with a CD, Ubuntu install will work, but you'll have to "apt-get install ssh" in at least one of them, and set a password for

RE: Moving VM hosts with ubuntu install

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Fries
Tricky question not because it is hard, but because there are multiple answers depending on what you are trying to achieve. Option 1 - backup the installed packages, etc, var, home then have Ubuntu simply install all your packages again (google for get-selections). This lets you move and upgra