[TriLUG] Questions about using Linux virtualization

[justin parker]

RedHat has two tools that work much the same way that vmware converter
works.  They are called virt-p2v for doing fullon os conversions, and
virt-v2v for converting physical server workloads. You should have a look
at this:

http://oirase.annexia.org/booth_w_1020_guest_conversion_in_rhel.pdf

HTH,

Justin

On Jul 13, 2012 2:48 PM, "Paul Boyle" <boyle at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've gotten interested in exploring how linux virtualization (using
> KVM) might be useful for me. I've done a little reading and seems that
> the examples I've come across so far involve setting up the VM then
> doing an install on the virgin VM from a dvd or cd-rom.  My questions
> revolve around how can one move an existing system (on its own
> hardware to a VM on the same or different machine.  Here are two
> things I'd like to be able to do:
>
> 1) I recently bought a new laptop, I was under pressure to get
> something finished so I took the Windows installed hard drive out and
> put the (Linux) hard drive from my old laptop in the new computer and
> finished the project.  Now I would like to use that new hard drive
> which has Windows preinstalled, and dedicating 750GB to a Microsoft OS
> seems like a tragic and terrible waste.  I would like to migrate the
> installed Windows system to a VM then reformat the hard drive so I can
> use it for what I want.  How can one do this?  Could the venerable dd
> utility be of some use here?
>
> 2) I have a legacy Linux box which I don't want to change, but I can
> tell the underlying hardware is getting a little flaky.  I would like
> to migrate this legacy system to a VM which resides on  a different
> and new computer which has a more recent (probably opensuse 12.1)
> Linux distribution installed on it.  How to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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