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

From: Gustavo <lungpu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon 03 Sep 2007 - 15:08:49 BST
Message-ID: <624a23b80709030708i2f1919c1x771af691081e3caf@mail.gmail.com>

There are a few differences between vservers and real servers but I should
be possible adapting some things from one to the another. If I'm
understanding right, you want the opposite to what stripserver script does
(an utility part of the vserver-debiantools package).

Regards

On 9/3/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:27:02PM +0300, Konstantinos Pachopoulos wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Either tar or rsync (on a halted server, preferrably) should work.
> Haven't had any problem that way.
>
> > "create" a full system/installation on the server. Of course both the
> > vserver guest and the new server are Debian-AMD64 based -the same
>
> A nice machine is a SunFire X2100 M2 -- it has an onboard processor
> (SMDC, IPMI 2.0) which allows you to completely control the hardware
> remotely, including reinstalling from remote media or .iso
>
> On the minus side, the hardware is PC (=crap).
>
> > system. Is this possible? I cannot find a guide... Any help or a link
> > would be helpful
>
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