[Fedora-xen] Migration from Xen to KVM

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:22 +0100, jean-Noël Chardron wrote:
> jean-Noël Chardron a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > rjones at redhat.com wrotes about migration :
> >
> >> Install a recent Linux kernel in the guest, adjust the configuration
> >> file[1], and reboot.  You only need Xenner if you want to run the Xen
> >> PV guest unchanged (ie. without installing a new guest kernel).
> >>
> >> Rich.
> >
> >> [1] 'virsh edit domname', and edit the domain type, <os> and   
> >> <emulator> fields, as detailed here: http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html
> >
> > I tried an centos5.2 dom0 with a domu centos5.2
> > It is not trivial
> > the tools virsh and xm are not functional to start the domain
> Oups I did a mistake in fact the command :
> 
> # virsh -c qemu:///system list
> seems working
> but there is an other error with the command :
> # virsh -c qemu:///system create domuAKVM.xml.v1
> libvir: QEMU erreur : Invalid harddisk device name: xvda

Try replacing xvda with vda in the domain's config.

Cheers,
Mark.