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On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:31 -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: |
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> In short, I am working on a server migration going from a physical box |
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> to a virtual system. I pretty much need everything (software-wise) |
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> identical. What is the best way to do that? I was looking at outputting |
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> the data from equery to a file, then emerging everything in that file. |
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> Is there an easier way to do this? |
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The easiest thing to do would be to migrate system, P2V, as is. I dont' |
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know what virtual server software you are using, but there are tools to |
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do this (plus with Linux it's easy enough doing manually). |
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Aside from that if you actually want to re-build the box from scratch, |
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I'd copy the /etc/make.conf, /etc/portage/* and /var/lib/portage/world |
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file over and, after performing a stageX install, do a "emerge -va `cat |
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world`" |
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-a |
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