On 2010-06-06 at 11:10:42 +0100, Mark van Harmelen wrote: > Hi everyone > > I have no experience of virtualisation, apart from running VirtualBox here > and there, and I'm wondering if anyone has an easy-to-do recommendation for > me, please.
You might want to take a look at Proxmox VE (http://proxmox.com/). It's essentially Debian with a few customized packages. It boots to a shell (no GUI), and then you actually manage it through a web interface. It lets you create KVM, and OpenVZ virtual machines. Pretty slick. > Has anyone got any experience converting a bare metal server to a virtual > image? For some free target, maybe KVM or one of the Xen products. Xen is The easiest way I've found is to boot the server using something like the System Rescue CD and then running: dd if=/dev/sda | ssh [email protected] dd of=/path/to/vm/image.raw If you are using proxmox, it would be something like: dd if=/dev/sda | ssh [email protected] dd of=/var/lib/vz/images/101/vm-101-disk-1.raw Shoot me an e-mail if you run into trouble. -A -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
