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 virt-p2v : P2V ("physical to virtual") migration tool
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 Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat Inc.
 
+	  http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/
+
+Binaries
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Binaries are available from the website (live CD images which can be
+burned directly to a CD and booted on the p2v candidate machine).
+
+http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/
+
+Building
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Requirements:
+ * livecd-creator (on Fedora the package is 'livecd-tools')
+ * qemu (only for testing)
+
+(1) Edit Makefile - there is some general configuration at the
+    top which you may want to change.
+
+(2) 'make build' will build an ISO image called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso
+
+(3) Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools.
+
+Booting from USB device
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If you wish to boot from a USB keydrive, use the livecd-iso-to-disk
+tool:
+
+  livecd-iso-to-disk virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso /dev/sdX1
+
+(Replace /dev/sdX1 with the actual USB device).
+
+In my experience I also had to set up a suitable MBR:
+
+  cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX
+
+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.
+
+Note that the live CD doesn't modify any data on the candidate
+machine.
+
+Answer the questions.  There is a tutorial and explanation of some of
+the questions on the website which you may wish to follow:
+http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/
+
+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.
+
+Booting P2V candidate under Xen
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+Testing
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If you want to test the live CD without actually P2V-ing a real
+server, then you can run the ISO directly in qemu.  (To do any sort of
+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
+
+
+Network daemon
+----------------------------------------------------------------------