I use Clonezilla to move VMs from one hypervisor to another. Boot the Clonezilla ISO on the KVM box, dump the guest. Create an empty zone with the resources you need for the guest on the SmartOS system and restore the Clonezilla image to the zone. I found this is the easiest way to go. I do this to go from XEN to KVM, VMWare to KVM, etc. The only thing you have to worry about is drivers in Windows. Just a little pre-planing fixes that problem.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:31 PM, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > So, are you implying that I create a KVM zone that is "OS neutral" and > then SCP the image to the zone's /root directory? > > Please forgive my ignorance here. > > -M > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Lane [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 11:21 PM > To: [email protected]; J Marc Edwards > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Running Chrome OS in SmartOS KVM > zone...some advice/guidance... > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:15:55PM -0500, J Marc Edwards via > smartos-discuss wrote: > > I have booted SmartOS on an Intel D54250WYKH NUC unit. The NUC has 16GB > of memory and a 256GB SSD mSATA. SmartOS has booted fine off of the > SmartOS USB boot stick. I have imported (“imgadm import”) some of Joyent’s > public images for Ubuntu, SmartOS, and Centos. I have a SmartOS zone and > an Ubuntu zone. No problems. Everything looks fine. So far, so good. > I’m only planning on running a few zones at a time on this little NUC. > > > > > > > > Now…I want to run the Chromium OS in a KVM zone. So, in my naïve > thinking, I decided to build a Chromium OS KVM “raw” image from Google’s > Chrome OS developer page on my Ubuntu 15 Linux workstation with the intent > of moving the Chromium OS KVM image over to the NUC and boot the image on a > KVM zone. > > > > > > > > I kind of thought that there would be a relatively straightforward > method to take the image tar/compressed on a USB stick and “import” the > image onto the global zone of the NUC. However, I found out that this is > much harder than I thought, and that I don’t have enough understanding of > how to proceed. > > > > > > > > I’m hoping that someone in the community would kindly inform me of how > they would expertly perform this task to migrate a Chromium OS KVM image to > a SmartOS KVM zone. > > > > > > > > Regards, Marc > > Hi Marc, > > To import .iso files or disk images into KVM zones from the global zone, > SCP them into /zones/$VM_UUID/root/. This is the same procedure for making > a virtio driver CD available to a Windows VM. > > Jon > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26772761-5af1dc68 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Greg http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregtreantos ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
