Re: [vserver] transfer a vserver guest to a PC and create a full system on the latter

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue 04 Sep 2007 - 15:28:29 BST
Message-ID: <20070904142829.GD10006@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:27:02PM +0300, Konstantinos Pachopoulos wrote:
> Hi,
> i don't know, but maybe instead of "transfer" the term is "migrate"... I
> am temporarily setting up a vserver for a specific task, but i have
> ordered a brand new server. I'd like instead of setting up the whole
> system on the server from ground up, to move the guest to the server and
> "create" a full system/installation on the server. Of course both the
> vserver guest and the new server are Debian-AMD64 based -the same
> system. Is this possible? I cannot find a guide...

> Any help or a link would be helpful

I would suggest to setup the 'real' machine as normal
debian amd64 and then 'diff' the Linux-VServer with
rsync (to look what has changed since), make a list
of that and decide what changes are relevant for your
case, you might encounter three types of differences:

 - changes which remove hardware related stuff on the guest
   (those should be visible right after installing the
   guest and should better be ignored)
 - changes between two identical installs (like keys
   or names, which you may ignore if that suits you)
 - changes which are the result of your guest adaptation
   (new packages, configs, etc)

the last category are the ones which are of real
interest to you and can then easily be rsynced back
to the real machine ...

HTH,
Herbert

> Thanks
>
Received on Tue Sep 4 15:28:44 2007

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