Greetings,
I'd like to convert a physical server running an outdated version of Ubuntu.
I'll be setting up an Ubuntu 20.04 running kvm/qemu hypervisor.
I would like to convert the physical server so I can decomission the old
hardware and keep the services running while I build a new VM to
replace the outdated version of Ubuntu.... TMI I know!
Anyway, has anyone had good luck running virt-ptv/virt-vtv in a live
environment to convert a physical server to a VM on KVM?
Did you use any specific live distro for the conversion?
The pysical server has two physical disks (presented via hardware RAID controller)
Disk 1:
Disk 2:
Some additional info if it helps:
I'm looking for advice on how to accomplish the conversion from physical
machine to a virtual machine.
What's your preferred method and why?
I only saw a few posts when searching "virt-p2v".
The instructions for virt-p2v seem straight forward enough. It
just seems like a lot of "back-end magic" to make this work.
I'm curious if my specific disk layout may cause issues.
I've seen folks first create the disk image on the hypervisor host,
but I don't see that as part of the official documentation linked above.
Thanks in advance.
I'd like to convert a physical server running an outdated version of Ubuntu.
I'll be setting up an Ubuntu 20.04 running kvm/qemu hypervisor.
I would like to convert the physical server so I can decomission the old
hardware and keep the services running while I build a new VM to
replace the outdated version of Ubuntu.... TMI I know!
Anyway, has anyone had good luck running virt-ptv/virt-vtv in a live
environment to convert a physical server to a VM on KVM?
Did you use any specific live distro for the conversion?
The pysical server has two physical disks (presented via hardware RAID controller)
Disk 1:
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 32 248832 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 32 9730 77899777 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 32 9730 77899776 8e Linux LVM
root@cpdata:~# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda5 poweredge lvm2 a- 74.29g 0
root@cpdata:~# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
poweredge 1 2 0 wz--n- 74.29g 0
root@cpdata:~# lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
root poweredge -wi-ao 70.30g
swap_1 poweredge -wi-ao 3.99gCode:
Disk /dev/sdb: 249.9 GB
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30384 244056032+ 83 LinuxCode:
root@cpdata:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/poweredge-root
70G 57G 9.1G 87% /
none 2.0G 196K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
none 2.0G 2.5M 2.0G 1% /var/run
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda1 228M 145M 71M 68% /boot
/dev/sdb1 230G 186G 32G 86% /mnt/sdb1
root@cpdata:~# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="6eda98e8-97cd-4e43-9e40-e2ff9c46366c" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: UUID="zQy8xH-NN5r-tVKN-YTbS-3UyN-De6n-rAIIay" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/mapper/poweredge-root: UUID="bace58f8-03f8-4b26-8e63-4a8441f2b18a" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/poweredge-swap_1: UUID="df18c186-e97b-43ca-9ab7-d78eadf52bb9" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="3f5ed8e1-3eef-474d-b128-b8adecf8251c" TYPE="ext4"machine to a virtual machine.
What's your preferred method and why?
I only saw a few posts when searching "virt-p2v".
The instructions for virt-p2v seem straight forward enough. It
just seems like a lot of "back-end magic" to make this work.
I'm curious if my specific disk layout may cause issues.
I've seen folks first create the disk image on the hypervisor host,
but I don't see that as part of the official documentation linked above.
Thanks in advance.