Thursday, June 3, 2010

P2V for KVM

Some resources I plan on using when trying to P2V a Windows Vista laptop to use on either RHEL or CentOS KVM.


Right now, the best solution looks to be to convert the physical box to a VM using VMWare vCenter Converter

I haven't ruled out using Xen, but my initial research indicates this may be easier to do on KVM then Xen. KVM appears to be more similar to Solaris Containers, whereas Xen uses paravirtualization. I've had limited experience with Xen, and no experience with KVM, so this should be a good learning exercise. Here's some more resources for reference:

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