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I want to do a live migration of my Fedora and Windows Server 2003 into raw disk image without restart the server or shut it down. (disk image is for virtualization purpose) Is there any open source software that I can use? I've heard of VMware Converter but it have to be moved to be virtualized in VMware Server ESXi or VMware Workstation.(I'll go for either Xen or KVM after the imaging) FYI, there's also database running on my server.

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you cannot live migrate from physical to virtual hardware. What you should do is plan downtime for the VM, and when ready, image or back it up, then restore to the VM.

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But I saw some software can do the whole migration process live, on Windows. Is there open source alternative for Linux? – user73766 Mar 15 '11 at 13:07
"some software" is no argument. What software exactly are you talking about? – dyasny Mar 15 '11 at 14:23
For Windows, there are disk2vhd, VMware converter. However, for open source I can't find any that do live imaging. – user73766 Mar 15 '11 at 18:27
this "live" imaging does NOT provide live migration between physical and virtual. what is provides is P2V, for Linux there's virt-v2v (RHEL and Fedora) and libguestfish can cope with any other distro afaik – dyasny Mar 15 '11 at 22:45

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