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Old 03-10-2009
Problem when creating VMHost with dd
Hi,

I have to create a VMhost from a server an I am doing this by using two Knoppix live CD'R's and conencting the VMhost machine to the server via switch. On in the original server and one in the VM HOST and I copy the drive over from the original server using the dd comand. When determing how big of a VMHOST I should create I did a df -h on the original drive and came up with 8.5GB total space so I created a VM of 11 GIG. When I booted the server with Knoppix I ran a sfdisk -l and it approximately the same number of GIGS. But when I ran the dd command on the original server it stalled after a while since it said it ran out of space at 11GIGS!

Can anyone tell me an effective way to determine how much Virtual Disk Space I need to create when cloning a server?
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Old 03-12-2009
If you're copying the disk entire, consider the size of the entire disk and not just the size of the partitions.. If you're copying partitions, be sure you are just copying a partition(i.e. /dev/hda1) instead of the disk entire (i.e. /dev/hda). Can you describe the procedure in more detail? What software transfers the information from the old server to the new?
 
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