[virt-tools-list] p2v: disk dump on a running machine

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:00:42AM +0100, lluis wrote:
> Hello,
> we are trying to do a p2v migration with dd from a running machine. We
> have written the process we followed here:
> http://www.ingent.net/en/2012/01/from-physical-to-virtual-with-dd-over-the-net/
> 
> guest uses IDE disk since it has an old kernel and we can't use virtio
> it works, but about once a week it hangs and we can't access it even
> with virt-manager. We have to force it off, logs don't show anything, it
> seems it loses access to disk, how can we debug this? should the process
> we used to migrate work?

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