Subject: Re: [vserver] transfer a vserver guest to a PC and create a full system on the latter
From: Gustavo <lungpu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:08:49 -0300
Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:08:49 -0300
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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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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