Convert physical lix to image for proxmox
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there are so many different ways, see
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE
Marco
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE
Marco
I have read this doc, but i have access only with ssh and is a linux machine. This doc explain only windows
I would like to make a copy with dd and convert image to qcow2 with qemu-image command but i dont know whether it is right
Stefano
no, this is not true. It has enphasys on windows perhaps because it's often more difficult/trickier
eg: you can use fsarchiver, or dd, or partimage and these methods apply to linux, mainly or too.
anyway it is not clear if you want to do p2v on a running linux machine...? that is hard to do correctly. a running system changes while you convert it.
you have mostly to boot from something like a livecd and convert disk/partitions
Marco
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anyway, you could see posts like this to find some other solution
http://serverfault.com/questions/43...-a-kvm-virtual-server-with-only-network-acces
Marco
http://serverfault.com/questions/43...-a-kvm-virtual-server-with-only-network-acces
Marco
I know, it is not recommended , but I can not do anything else, i don't have access to physical machine
you can try also other hypervisors tools, like http://www.vmware.com/products/converter
and convert your system to vmdk, and then use qemu-img to convert that vmdk to pretty much any other format...
and fsarchiver, cited in the wiki article, has an option to work also with mounted partitions, even if it's not advisable to, see http://www.fsarchiver.org/Live-backup
and http://www.fsarchiver.org/QuickStart (bottom)
Marco
and convert your system to vmdk, and then use qemu-img to convert that vmdk to pretty much any other format...
and fsarchiver, cited in the wiki article, has an option to work also with mounted partitions, even if it's not advisable to, see http://www.fsarchiver.org/Live-backup
and http://www.fsarchiver.org/QuickStart (bottom)
Marco
Hi,
what kind of access do you have? And what services are running (an heavy changed database are not easy to copy - in this case you must stop the db)?
You can also use rsync, but you should have linux-experience (create boot-loader/ adapt /etc/fstab and so on).
Use the server lvm? In this case you can create an snapshot to get valid files for syncing (but not the last version).
Udo
If you have access to IPMI or any other type KVM over IP, you can load a CD-Rom image lets say clonezilla for example and create ISO files of the physical machine. Then create a VM with somewhat similar configuration such as virtual disk, then just load the ISO file and restore the machine onto that VM.
Linux is very good at adapting hardware changes. So you should not have issue.
Also with IPMI and such you can convert your machine while it is powered off. So there are no worry of not converting exact replica and have data change on you while doing the cloning.
Linux is very good at adapting hardware changes. So you should not have issue.
Also with IPMI and such you can convert your machine while it is powered off. So there are no worry of not converting exact replica and have data change on you while doing the cloning.