Re: [Hampshire] Converting real servers to virtualised ones

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Author: Graham Bleach
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Converting real servers to virtualised ones
On 29/02/2008, Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
> I know VMWare has a utility to convert physical hosts to VMWare virtual
> machines (or just disk images?). Can one convert a physical server to a
> disk image or partition for use with Xen? Or do other virtualisation
> solutions support this better?* The server supports VT on the CPUs but
> should run headless without X.


You may have tried this already, but a google for "p2v tools xen" sans
quotes turns up a couple of interesting hits including [1] which
mentions using the vmware p2v tool and then a vmware to xen conversion
tool.

G

[1] http://forums.xensource.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11209