1 virt-p2v : P2V ("physical to virtual") migration tool
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4 Written by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
6 Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Red Hat Inc.
8 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/
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13 Please send all queries, patches, bug reports etc. to the
14 et-mgmt-tools mailing list:
16 http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
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22 Binaries are available from the website (live CD images which can be
23 burned directly to a CD and booted on the p2v candidate machine).
25 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/download.html
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31 Please read the manual page:
34 or make man; nroff -man virt-p2v.1 | less
35 or http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.1.html
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43 * livecd-creator (in Fedora the package is called 'livecd-tools')
44 * rpmbuild (in Fedora package rpm-build)
45 * ocaml, ocaml-findlib, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light,
46 ocaml-newt, ocaml-libvirt, ocaml-fileutils, ocaml-gettext,
47 ocaml-gettext-devel (all in Fedora)
48 * qemu and/or KVM (only for testing)
58 make rpm builds the virt-p2v RPM
59 make build (AS ROOT) builds an ISO image
60 called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso
62 Other useful commands:
64 make man Build manual page
65 make pxe Make a PXE-boot image in tftpboot/ subdirectory
67 Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools.
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73 If you want to test the live CD without actually P2V-ing a real
74 server, then you can run the ISO directly in qemu. (To do any sort of
75 realistic testing you will also need an operating system image,
76 eg. from /var/lib/xen/images, to experiment with). For example:
78 cp /var/lib/xen/images/rhel5gax32fv.img .
79 make boot HDA=rhel5gax32fv.img