Re: [fedora-virt] Re: virt-p2v

[Brian Krusic <brian krusic com>]

Hi David,

Well, my / is 25G however the image that gets produced is 400G.

The 400G is that actual size of my entire disk but I only have a 25G  
partition defined, the rest of the drive is blank other then for a  
small swap partition.

- Brian




On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:31 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:24 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:34:22AM -0800, Brian Krusic wrote:
> > > I've used virt-p2v many times with great success.
> > >
> > > However I have an issue.
> > >
> > > I've always converted hosts having small disks of around 35G over to
> > > domUs but have an issue were my current host in need of being
> > > virtualized has a physical disk of 400G but its / partition is  
> > > only 35G,
> > > the rest of the drive is unallocated/unpartitioned and therefore  
> > > unused.
> > [...]
> > > I obviously don't want to migrate the entire 400G disk as it only  
> > > has a
> > > 35G root partition (ext3, no LVMs in this case).
> >
> > Oh dear, this is a problem :-(
> >
> > The answer unfortunately is that virt-p2v currently doesn't support
> > this - we can only migrate whole block devices.
>
> As I understand Brian, the block device is whatever / is mounted on, a
> 25G partition, and it shouldn't matter how big the actual disk is
> containing the partition.
>
> David