[Fedora-xen] what steps are required to manually move a PV domU from one machine to another?

[itamar]

Can you explain for me how to do this using LVM ?


there are a easy way to move a lvm partition from a machine to another 
over network ?





Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:48:20PM -0800, fc xen list wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having a problem - I created a lovely bunch of F8 x86_64 domUs and I 
>> want to create a vast clone army of them using different dom0s. The problem 
>> is, I do:
>>
>> fm # virt-install c1 (no graphics)
>> fm # xm start c1
>> fm # xm shutdown c1 [ ok I don't _always_ shut it down :P  ]
>>     
>
> Welcome to the world of massive data corruption if you copy the
> disk without shutting down.
>
>   
>> fm # scp -p c1.img othermachine:/var/lib/xen/images
>> then:
>> om1 # virsh define c1.xml
>>     
>
> You can't just use the same XML for each - you need to change the UUID,
> the namem, and disk image in the XML at very least.
>
>   
>> om1 # xm start c1
>>
>> and hangville,
>> if I do:
>> om1 # xmstart c1 -c
>> it seems to hang just after the grub boot menu.
>>     
>
> Define hang ? If the guest is configured with graphical framebuffer it
> is perfectly expected that you'll not see anything on the text console
> while booting.
>
>   
>> I assume I am "doing it wrong" but this worked great in the past.
>>     
>
> You might want to try the 'virt-clone' tool which will automate much of
> the stuff.
>
> Dan.
>