http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/791/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/597 <p>Dear <a href="http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/wp-trackback.php?p=57" rel="nofollow">Leo</a></p> <p>Back in the days I wrote a paper on how to automate Xen virtual machine deployment, one of the side advantages of abusing systemimager in this way is that you can also rebootstrap your physical machines on a virtual machine with no effort.<br /> The only disadvantage is that you have to make a golden image of the server.</p> <p>Basically the whole P2V concept is just showing how little of a typical infrastructure can be reproduced automatically (10th floor test anyone ?)<br /> A machine should be able to be reinstalled to the last known point with no effort, physical or virtual shouldn't matter.</p> <p>Apart from abusing systemimager to do the job, you really need to peak at openQRM. <a href="http://mattinaction.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Matt</a> should probably put some videos on youtube , but with openQRM you can migrate boxen from Physical to Xen, from Xen to VMWare, frmo VMWare back to Xen and so on ..</p> <p>As for non unix operating systems .. frankly ..</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/597#comments p2v Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:26:41 +0000 Kris Buytaert 597 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog