Re: Pushing real machines into KVM/Qemu

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That probably would have been useful if I hadn’t waited until the physical instance’s motherboard started to give out…

I’ll try rebuilding with hostonly=no and adding all the virtio_* drivers I can find… Anything else I need to virtualize a host?

Thanks
 

> On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:39 AM, Helmut Drodofsky <drodofsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> never testet by myself:
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> usage of virt-p2v
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> Am 07.07.2020 um 06:22 schrieb Philip Prindeville:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I took a real Core 2 machine (T7200… whose motherboard was starting to die…) running Fedora 29 and dd’d the SSD over to my KVM server, then created a VM using “create from existing image”.
>> 
>> After some tweaking, including setting the disk type to “SATA” from “Virtio”, I got it working.
>> 
>> Is there a fixed recipe for virtualizing CentOS/Fedora/RHEL instances into running VM’s on KVM/Qemu?
>> 
>> Like re-running dracut and adding any particular drivers, etc?
>> 
>> It works, but I don’t know how efficient the emulation is.
>> 
>> The host hardware has IGB NIC’s, and I’m using “hostdev” as the network type, so that seems to be working well enough with the “igbvf” driver.
>> 
>> Any tips would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks!
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