Difference between revisions of "GSP Virtualisation with Xen"

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== Moving VM image files from outside - import existing Xen (PV) VMs from CentOS or RHEL 5 ==
 
== Moving VM image files from outside - import existing Xen (PV) VMs from CentOS or RHEL 5 ==
  
Note: you cannot move VM images between pools (since a single SR cannot be shared amongst more than one pool), and you cannot usually mount current (non-XCP) image repositories on a server inside a pool. One trick to play is to actually copy the contents of the images from the outside to a pre-prepared volume inside an SR, and that pre-prepared VDI should be of the same (or larger), and be of type 'raw'. Into your fresh placeholder VDI, you can then copy the raw disk image from your RHEL5/CentOS5 Xen VM.
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Note: you cannot move VM images between pools - since a single Storage Repository (SR) cannot be shared amongst more than one pool - and you cannot usually mount current (non-XCP) image repositories on a server inside a pool. One trick to play is to actually copy the contents of the images from the outside to a pre-prepared volume inside an SR, and that pre-prepared VDI should be of the same (or larger), and be of type 'raw'. Into your fresh placeholder VDI, you can then copy the raw disk image from your RHEL5/CentOS5 Xen VM.
  
 
==== Raw image and LVM ====
 
==== Raw image and LVM ====

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