Chris Jones wrote:
Hi MRJ, Thanks for the valuable info. I was familiar with
> vdiskadm but I did not know that it had import > capabilities as the man page did not support this. yeah.. It's in the b121 man page now since the commands have been ARC'd.
After I imported the vmdk I was a little stuck as
> I couldn't quite figure out how to create the guest > domain using this imported vdisk. I used somewhat of > a hackish method in order to create the guest domain. > I ran virt-install to fake an installation and specified > the vidsk that I had previously imported. Once it was > created and running I just rebooted the domain and viola, > the domain booted just fine. Yes, that is officially supported (pointing virt-install to a previsouly created vdisk)... I was concerned that you would have to modify the guest configuration more.. Very cool that it just worked!
I noticed virsh has a two subcommands - create and define
> but I was unable to get them to work as I needed an XML > configuration file which normally you can dump from an > existing domain. Since my vdisk came from a VMware server > I was not able to do this unless I missing something. You could create a guest, then copy and modify the xml for the new guest, pointing to the new vdisk or vmdk file. MRJ _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
