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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14 Binaries are available from the website (live CD images which can be
15 burned directly to a CD and booted on the p2v candidate machine).
17 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/download.html
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23 Please read the manual page:
26 or make man; nroff -man virt-p2v.1 | less
27 or http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.1.html
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35 * livecd-creator (on Fedora the package is 'livecd-tools')
36 * ocaml, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light (all in Fedora)
37 * qemu and/or KVM (only for testing)
39 (1) Edit Makefile - there is some general configuration at the
40 top which you may want to change.
42 (2) 'make build' will build an ISO image called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso
44 (3) Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools.
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50 If you want to test the live CD without actually P2V-ing a real
51 server, then you can run the ISO directly in qemu. (To do any sort of
52 realistic testing you will also need an operating system image,
53 eg. from /var/lib/xen/images, to experiment with). For example:
55 $ cp /var/lib/xen/images/rhel5gax32fv.img .
56 $ make boot HDA=rhel5gax32fv.img
57 qemu -m 512 -cdrom virt-p2v-0.1.iso -boot d -hda rhel5gax32fv.img