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virt-p2v : P2V ("physical to virtual") migration tool
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http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/
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Binaries
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Requirements:
- * livecd-creator (on Fedora the package is 'livecd-tools')
- * ocaml, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light (all in Fedora)
+ * livecd-creator (in Fedora the package is called 'livecd-tools')
+ * rpmbuild (in Fedora package rpm-build)
+ * ocaml, ocaml-findlib, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light,
+ ocaml-newt, ocaml-libvirt, ocaml-fileutils, ocaml-gettext,
+ ocaml-gettext-devel (all in Fedora)
* qemu and/or KVM (only for testing)
-(1) Edit Makefile - there is some general configuration at the
- top which you may want to change.
+Then:
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+ ./configure --help
+ ./configure
+ make
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+Then:
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+ make rpm builds the virt-p2v RPM
+ make build (AS ROOT) builds an ISO image
+ called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso
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+Other useful commands:
-(2) 'make build' will build an ISO image called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso
+ make man Build manual page
+ make pxe Make a PXE-boot image in tftpboot/ subdirectory
-(3) Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools.
+Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools.
Testing
realistic testing you will also need an operating system image,
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
+ cp /var/lib/xen/images/rhel5gax32fv.img .
+ make boot HDA=rhel5gax32fv.img