Difference between revisions of "Creating a Virtual Machine from an Existing one Manually"
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{{Command|<nowiki>mkfs.ext4 /dev/volumegroup-name/machine-name | {{Command|<nowiki>mkfs.ext4 /dev/volumegroup-name/machine-name | ||
mkswap /dev/volumegroup-name/machine-name-swap</nowiki>}} | mkswap /dev/volumegroup-name/machine-name-swap</nowiki>}} | ||
| − | After the file copy, it is necessary to edit some configuration files: securetty, inittab and fstab | + | After the file copy, it is necessary to edit some configuration files: securetty, inittab and fstab. First edit securetty |
{{Command|<nowiki>vi securetty</nowiki>}} | {{Command|<nowiki>vi securetty</nowiki>}} | ||
| + | A line containing hvc0 should be in the file. | ||
| + | {{File|/etc/securetty|<pre><nowiki> | ||
| + | #... | ||
| + | # IBM iSeries/pSeries virtual console | ||
| + | hvc0 | ||
| + | hvc1 | ||
| + | #... | ||
| + | </nowiki></pre>}} | ||
| + | Then search inittab for a line with tty like the one below: | ||
| + | {{File|/etc/inittab|<pre><nowiki> | ||
| + | #c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux | ||
| + | </nowiki></pre>}} | ||
| + | and edit it to: | ||
{{File|/etc/securetty|<pre><nowiki> | {{File|/etc/securetty|<pre><nowiki> | ||
| − | + | c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 hvc0 linux | |
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</nowiki></pre>}} | </nowiki></pre>}} | ||
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Revision as of 20:18, 27 August 2014
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Assuming an LVM setup, this is the command for allocating the required disk space (in this example 20Gb) for the main disk of the virtual machine. Another amount is required for the swap space.
where machine-name and volumegroup-name are specific to the intended configuration.
The virtual units are formatted
After the file copy, it is necessary to edit some configuration files: securetty, inittab and fstab. First edit securetty
A line containing hvc0 should be in the file.
#... # IBM iSeries/pSeries virtual console hvc0 hvc1 #...
Then search inittab for a line with tty like the one below:
#c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
and edit it to:
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 hvc0 linux
vi fstab /dev/xvda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/xvda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
cd /dev
mknod xvc0 c 204 191
mknod hvc0 c 229 0
mknod xvda b 202 0
mknod xvda1 b 202 1
