X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8b61d357bbb6b0345cec2e0fdd2c6360cf5f1a16;hb=91e0946235d4c7e2d1fe7eee01d3705dd81c945b;hp=1e258c2e5813e0e1fe34ac29e0ce7c6a45b9ab6f;hpb=86bfeb367eb0367046acde183eb6b677ee1d0d1f;p=virt-p2v.git diff --git a/README b/README index 1e258c2..8b61d35 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,58 @@ 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/ + + +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 (on Fedora the package is 'livecd-tools') + * ocaml, ocaml-extlib, ocaml-pcre, ocaml-xml-light (all in Fedora) + * qemu and/or KVM (only for testing) + +Then: + + ./configure && make + +As root, 'make build' will build an ISO image called +'virt-p2v-$VERSION.iso'. + +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