Comments on: Move an LVM-based virtual machine to another host

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:58:24 +0000

Thanks Kevin! You save me.

By: Marcet

Marcet — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:56:33 +0000

Thanks a lot for this great article which saves me time moving my VMs to a faster server.

I just had to modify the VMs config files as the VG has different names on the new server.

By: KeremE

KeremE — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:24:25 +0000

Thanks great post. Thanks to Kevin too.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:42:48 +0000

Thanks Brad, this saved me a ton of time.

Also thanks to Kevin for the comment on dd over ssh. It is necessary for those hosts without enough disk space for a copy of the vm image.

By: Bfisk

Bfisk — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:31:24 +0000

Thanks! Worked great.

By: Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:37:07 +0000

Here’s another (similar) way to move a LVM based VM to another host

1. create a LVM partition of the same size or larger on the target host.
lvcreate…
2. shutdown the vm on the source host
xm shutdown vm
3. copy the LVM partition to the target host using:
dd if=/dev/vg_root/lv_zimbra bs=1k | ssh zen4 dd of=/dev/vg_root/lv_zimbra bs=1k
4. copy the xen startup script for the vm to the target server:
scp /etc/xen/zimbra target:/etc/xen

By: 2D

2D — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:49:58 +0000

Great post, this saved me a lot of time!

By: Al

Al — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:04:23 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It’s incredibly useful.