Migrate VM to Physical machine

[francisco.]

Hi,

By Performance issues I have to migrate a VM to Physical machine. I think that I have to following next steps:

1º-Convert to RAW disk.
2º-Create partitions in PM.
3º-Dump image.raw to disk physical using "dd" command.

Is this correct?

Any help is welcome.

Best regards.
Francisco

 

[mir]

Does your VM image contain partitions? If so your solution cannot be used.

Why not use clonezilla instead? http://clonezilla.org/

 

[francisco.]

My VM contains next "fdisk -l":

Disk /dev/sda: 5377 MB, 5377097728 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 653 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 652 5132767+ 8e Linux LVM


Disk /dev/sdb: 1077 MB, 1077936128 bytes
34 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2074 * 512 = 1061888 bytes


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1011 1048376+ 83 Linux


Disk /dev/sdc: 1077 MB, 1077936128 bytes
34 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2074 * 512 = 1061888 bytes


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 1011 1048376+ 83 Linux

I think that I have to delete sdb disk, sdc disk (sda disk is root partition) and move information to respective folders.

Clonezilla is a good option.

Regards.

 

[mir]

"Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 652 5132767+ 8e Linux LVM"

This means your disk contains partitions. dd is not an option then.

 

[francisco.]

"Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 652 5132767+ 8e Linux LVM"

This means your disk contains partitions. dd is not an option then.

Could I create partitions?

 

[mir]

I would recommend doing a file system based migration and the restore grub on the physical server.

 

[Kaya]

Boot VM with clonezilla live cd.
Make image of the three disk (sda|b|c).
Resto the image to 3 differents disk.

But I think that, due to virtual disk size, a software migration will be better.