Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hello,I need to move Debian from a Vmware with 1GB space to a new one with 2GB.What is the easiest way to achieve exact copy ?Thanks,Miki -- --Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant andDirector.http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net.Cellular:

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Broido
Hey,Inorder to answer you, I need some more inputs from you.1) Which product of Vmware are you talking about? Is it ESX ? or Workstation,GSX,Server?2) You've mentioned 1GB-2GB... Do you want to extend existing VM of 1GB to span accross 2GB ? Is it acceptable for you to perform an offline

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hello, I need to move Debian from a Vmware with 1GB space to a new one with 2GB. What is the easiest way to achieve exact copy ? Same as between hard disks, I guess. Connect the new hard disk to the existing machine. Create the partition layout you want. Copy the files

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Broido
1)Shutdown the vm2) vmware-vdiskmanager -x new size file.vmdk3) boot the VM4) Resize the partition filesystems using standard linux tools... (parted,etc...)Voila. On 10/26/06, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hello, I need to move Debian from a Vmware with 1GB space

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Broido
1)Shutdown the vm 2) vmware-vdiskmanager -x new size file.vmdk 3) boot the VM 4) Resize the partition filesystems using standard linux tools... (parted,etc...) Voila. On 10/26/06, Jacob Broido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Inorder to answer you, I need some more inputs from you. 1) Which

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jacob Broido wrote: 1)Shutdown the vm 2) vmware-vdiskmanager -x new size file.vmdk 3) boot the VM 3.5) Make a VMWare snapshot, so that if step 4 goes wrong, you'll still be ok. 4) Resize the partition filesystems using standard linux tools... (parted,etc...) booted from a live CD (Knoppix

force umount

2006-10-26 Thread Erez D
hii have a linux server with a lot of people working on it, so i can not reboot iti need unmounting a locked SMB mount on it.i can not umount as it is busyi can not kill the processes acessing it as they are in the 'D' state and are not killed even by kill -9 using mount to remount with soft and

Re: force umount

2006-10-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erez D wrote: hi i have a linux server with a lot of people working on it, so i can not reboot it i need unmounting a locked SMB mount on it. i can not umount as it is busy i can not kill the processes acessing it as they are in the 'D' state and are not killed even by kill -9 using

Re: force umount

2006-10-26 Thread Noam Meltzer
actually, that is the exact reason why i do not recommend my customers to use smb mounts on their servers (and especially not on production).mouting SMB shares on linux is not very stable, but the real problems begins when the SMB server goes down. then your mount will be hanged, and it will

Web interface for cvs repositiory

2006-10-26 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi,I'm looking for a web based read-only interface for cvs. I checked out ViewVS (formerly known as ViewCVS), but it didn't fit my needs.I've a CVS repository on a shared hosting in Dreamhost and as a result I can't install software system wide. So I'm looking for software like ViewVS but written