@Aaron, Thanks for the dd detail, its been years (whoops, where did that time go) since I used dd.. mark
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
