Thanks. I don't have to do this for a couple of weeks yet. Hopefully
things will go relatively smoothly.
-John
On 12/4/06, Wolfgang Hennerbichler <wogri@wogri.com> wrote:
>
> On 04.12.2006, at 19:44, John Alberts wrote:
>
> > I have a guest os running on vserver that is configured and running
> > great. I would like to move/copy that guest os to a standalone
> > workstation.
> >
> > I am using Gentoo. It seems that if I make a tarball of the guest and
> > then copy it to the workstation, change the profile, emerge the proper
> > baselayout, install grub, I would think it should be ok.
> >
> > What do you guys think? Is this possible?
>
> It definitely is possible.
> I just moved a debian-vserver-guest to a xen-guest. A xen-guest is
> more or less configured like a real physical machine (except for the
> kernel and bootloader).
>
> Under debian I would install grub, and run 'grub-install', configure
> a kernel and place that kernel in the grub-config.
>
> What I did, was just to edit /etc/inittab, change it accordingly (I
> didn't get a login shell), and that's about it. If you have disabled
> your root-password (as I did in my vserver-guests), you would have to
> re-enable it. Networking-scripts might need to be adjusted, too (my
> xen hosts gets it from kernel level ip autoconfiguration).
>
> > - John
>
> HTH
> wogri
>
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