If the skeleton method in still to heavy for you to start off with try
download prebuild virtualmachine guests:
After you installed a (rpm:
http://www.virtualinfrastructure.nl/downloads/kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.vs2.0.0.0.rc4.i686.rpm)
kernel just unpak it
bash# wget
http://www.virtualinfrastructure.nl/downloads/precompiled/virtualinfrastructure-11012006-fc3-minimal.tgz
bash# tar xvzf virtualinfrastructure-11012006-fc3-minimal.tgz
bash# mkdir /etc/vservers
bash# mv fc3_minimal /etc/vservers
en start the thing:
bash# vserver fc3_minimal start
bash# vserver fc3_minimal enter
be aware: This is a fedora core 3 guest and fedora code 3 kernel. For other
versions check the vserver website.
Cheers,
J-
On 1/25/06, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:12:46AM +0200, Ehab Heikal wrote:
> > I need to setup a development or staging server of an existing running
> > server. Is there a tool to do so?
>
> just create a new skeleton guest with the -m skeleton
> build method, which resembles the physical system
> regarding networking and naming, the copy over the
> entire contents of the physical machine, excluding
> the /dev and /proc directory to the skeleton dir
> (cp -a, dump/restore, tar, rsync, ...)
>
> starting and stopping the guest should work after
> that, but you might want to clean up scripts later
> to avoid a bunch of failures when the new guest
> tries to mess with the hardware ...
>
> HTH,
> Herbert
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