virt-p2v : P2V ("physical to virtual") migration tool
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Written by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>

Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Red Hat Inc.

	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/

Support
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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
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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
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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
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Requirements:

 * 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)

Then:

	./configure --help
	./configure
	make

Then:

	make rpm	builds the virt-p2v RPM
	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
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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


Serial console
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With livecd-tools >= 018, the CD should enable the serial console
(ttyS0, 9600 8N1).

You can test this with:
  make boot [...] SERIAL=yes