X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6902fcab1fe99c200bb476ffb2a46a557094d093;hb=4b59a9e67994b88c9ff8e2db7ec81ef49d5124ef;hp=1e258c2e5813e0e1fe34ac29e0ce7c6a45b9ab6f;hpb=86bfeb367eb0367046acde183eb6b677ee1d0d1f;p=virt-p2v.git diff --git a/README b/README index 1e258c2..6902fca 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,76 @@ virt-p2v : P2V ("physical to virtual") migration tool ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Written by: - Richard W.M. Jones +Written by Richard W.M. Jones -Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat Inc. +Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Red Hat Inc. + http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/ + +Support +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Please send all queries, patches, bug reports etc. to the +et-mgmt-tools mailing list: + + http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools + + +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/download.html + + +Usage +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Please read the manual page: + + man virt-p2v +or make man; nroff -man virt-p2v.1 | less +or http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.1.html + + +Building +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Requirements: + + * livecd-creator (in Fedora the package is called 'livecd-tools') + * ocaml, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light, + ocaml-newt (all in Fedora) + * qemu and/or KVM (only for testing) + +Then: + + ./configure --help + ./configure + make + +Then: + + make build (as root) builds an ISO image + called virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso + +Other useful commands: + + make man Build manual page + make pxe Make a PXE-boot image in tftpboot/ subdirectory + +Burn the image on to a CD using standard tools. + + +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