Re: [Vserver] Virtualizing a physical server

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Wed 25 Jan 2006 - 16:53:02 GMT
Message-ID: <20060125165302.GF10609@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:48:07PM +0100, Joep Gommers wrote:
> If the skeleton method in still to heavy for you to start off with try
> download prebuild virtualmachine guests:
> After you installed a (rpm:
> http://www.virtualinfrastructure.nl/downloads/kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.vs2.0.0.0.rc4.i686.rpm)
> kernel just unpak it
> bash# wget
> http://www.virtualinfrastructure.nl/downloads/precompiled/virtualinfrastructure-11012006-fc3-minimal.tgz
> bash# tar xvzf virtualinfrastructure-11012006-fc3-minimal.tgz
> bash# mkdir /etc/vservers
> bash# mv fc3_minimal /etc/vservers
>
> en start the thing:
> bash# vserver fc3_minimal start
>
> bash# vserver fc3_minimal enter
>
> be aware: This is a fedora core 3 guest and fedora code 3 kernel. For other
> versions check the vserver website.

well, good idea, but how would that help him with
virtualizing an existing machine?

TIA,
Herbert

> Cheers,
> J-
>
> On 1/25/06, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:12:46AM +0200, Ehab Heikal wrote:
> > > I need to setup a development or staging server of an existing running
> > > server. Is there a tool to do so?
> >
> > just create a new skeleton guest with the -m skeleton
> > build method, which resembles the physical system
> > regarding networking and naming, the copy over the
> > entire contents of the physical machine, excluding
> > the /dev and /proc directory to the skeleton dir
> > (cp -a, dump/restore, tar, rsync, ...)
> >
> > starting and stopping the guest should work after
> > that, but you might want to clean up scripts later
> > to avoid a bunch of failures when the new guest
> > tries to mess with the hardware ...
> >
> > HTH,
> > Herbert
> >
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