If the skeleton method in still to heavy for you to start off with try download prebuild virtualmachine guests:
After you installed a (rpm: http://www.virtualinfrastructure.nl/downloads/kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.vs2.0.0.0.rc4.i686.rpm) kernel just unpak it
bash# wget http://www.virtualinfrastructure.nl/downloads/precompiled/virtualinfrastructure-11012006-fc3-minimal.tgz
bash# tar xvzf virtualinfrastructure-11012006-fc3-minimal.tgz
bash# mkdir /etc/vservers
bash# mv fc3_minimal /etc/vservers

en start the thing:
bash# vserver fc3_minimal start

bash# vserver fc3_minimal enter

be aware: This is a fedora core 3 guest and fedora code 3 kernel. For other versions check the vserver website.

Cheers,
J-

On 1/25/06, Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:12:46AM +0200, Ehab Heikal wrote:
> I need to setup a development or staging server of an existing running
> server. Is there a tool to do so?

just create a new skeleton guest with the -m skeleton
build method, which resembles the physical system
regarding networking and naming, the copy over the
entire contents of the physical machine, excluding
the /dev and /proc directory to the skeleton dir
(cp -a, dump/restore, tar, rsync, ...)

starting and stopping the guest should work after
that, but you might want to clean up scripts later
to avoid a bunch of failures when the new guest
tries to mess with the hardware ...

HTH,
Herbert

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