Re: [Hampshire] Converting real servers to virtualised ones

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Author: Ottavio Caruso
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Converting real servers to virtualised ones

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:10:11 +0000, "Hugo Mills" <hugo@???>
said:

>    More practically, qemu-img will do format conversions, if you need
> it. I haven't tried exactly this method, but something like the
> following would be my first port of call:

>
> $ dd if=/dev/hda | qemu-img convert -f host_device - -O qcow2 - | netcat
> ...
>


I'd have suggested qemu-img, too, but isn't there a file size limitation
with qemu-img?

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