Updated documentation.

[virt-p2v.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index bbf5742..7886193 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -52,12 +52,10 @@ Running
 Boot the candidate machine from the live CD or USB keydrive.
 
 You will need to have network access to another machine where it will
-save the virtual disk images.  Ideally that machine will have ssh
-access (sshd service running), but there is also a simple network
-daemon that you can run on the target machine.  Note that the target
-machine is usually the Xen host, but it doesn't need to be: you could
-copy the images to a staging machine, and later copy them over to the
-Xen host.
+save the virtual disk images.  That machine must have ssh access (sshd
+service running).  Note that the target machine is usually the Xen
+host, but it doesn't need to be: you could copy the images to a
+staging machine, and later copy them over to the Xen host.
 
 Note that the live CD doesn't modify any data on the candidate
 machine.
@@ -70,13 +68,15 @@ While the live CD is booted a shell is available on other virtual
 consoles.  Go to a virtual console using [ALT] [F2] and log in as root
 with no password.
 
-If it works, the result will be disk images for each filesystem from
-the candidate machine, which should boot directly or with the minimum
-of changes.
+If it works, the result will be a configuration file and disk images
+for each block device (hard disk) from the candidate machine, which
+should boot directly or with the minimum of changes.
 
 Booting P2V candidate under Xen
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+  # virsh define p2v-foo-2008MMDDHHMM.conf
+  # virsh start foo
 
 Testing
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -89,27 +89,3 @@ eg. from /var/lib/xen/images, to experiment with).  For example:
   $ cp /var/lib/xen/images/rhel5gax32fv.img .
   $ make boot HDA=rhel5gax32fv.img
   qemu -m 512 -cdrom virt-p2v-0.1.iso -boot d -hda rhel5gax32fv.img
-
-
-TCP transport and network daemon
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The preferred transport is ssh, but if you cannot use this then there
-is an alternate TCP transport.  (This transport is not encrypted).
-
-On the Xen host or staging server, install NetCat (the 'nc' command,
-in Fedora and RHEL the package is also called 'nc').
-
-Choose a free port number and make sure that it is not firewalled.
-
-Then run:
-
-  nc -kl PORT > disks
-
-where PORT is replaced by the port number chosen above.
-
-After p2v has completed the 'disks' file will contain compressed
-images of one or more disks.  There is a Perl script called
-virt-p2v-unpack which can unpack the file:
-
-  virt-p2v-unpack disks