barry flanagan qstdstmehgcflanaganie 14 nov 2007 1011 kevin brennan wrote hi looking moving physical servers xen perhaps already running virtualised servers comment part headache moving virtualisation would migration existing servers paravirtualised machine lots existing services nicely setup would cleaner move one go rather taking service individually migrating tools help move complete physical server virtual server easily currently different flavours red hat clones always use lvm raid5 xen host server create logical volumes guests usually one root one var one swap works well added advantage allowing snapshots volume cue next question one quick way migrate physical virtual server would 1 boot physical server knoppixlike cd 2 mount local disks 3 xen host export volumes created new vm physical server 4 nfs mount new exported vm volumes physical server 5 use tar preferred method copy files old new fs 6 edit config files copy xen kernel modules etc 7 try booting new vm another question ease backup restore without using shared storage understand using sanwan pretty much stop start different physical server without sanwan server 1 local raid array running virtual hosts abc server 2 local raid sub net running def easy stop move 1 2 using lvm snapshots could set sync mechanism two hosts host maintains mirror others volumes way either machine would ready take hosting vms question choice linux flavour domain 0 much difference makes management easiest best evaluate total cost ownership experiences host really bare minimum use debian b easy get basic install fluff hope helps thx kb irish linux users group mailing list list httpmaillinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug httpwwwlinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemap barry flanagan fri 08 aug 2008 034210 0000 ilug existing servers xen virtualisation