Xen: Transfer LVM

From Ece

• Take a snapshot of the LVM

lvcreate -s -L 300m -n SERVER-snap VolGroupNN

• Copy the snapshot to an image

dd if=/dev/VolGroupNN/SERVER-snap of=/tmp/SERVER.img bs=4096

• Dispose of the snapshot

lvremove /dev/VolGroupNN/SERVER-snap

• Copy the image to the new XEN server

scp /tmp/SERVER.img user@new-vmhost:/tmp/

• Create new logical volume

lvcreate -n SERVER -L 60G VolGroupNN

• Copy image onto volume

dd if=SERVER.img of=/dev/VolGroupNN/SERVER bs=4096

• Copy XEN config files for server

scp /etc/xen/SERVER user@new-vmhost:
sudo mv ~/win2k3vm /etc/xen/