Hello,

This is more of a "i need advice" than a question...

We are getting about 10 Dell Servers each with RHEL 5.2

Each server will be virtualized (Dom0 with 1 VM running apache). This way it give me the flexibility to do migrations from one physical machine to another (I know I'm running only 1 dom...i'm doing it for flexibility

I know (given that the configuration files are in place) I can do live migrations with xm migrate --live <dom> <host> but migration is not my problem. I was wondering if I can "clone" the machines?

I want to accomplish a "rapid deployment" sort of thing. But didn't find much on the subject.

This is what I am envisioning...

1) Install "Dom0"
2) Install a vm and "build" it.
3) Be able to "clone" this vm to another physical machine

Also these vm's are going to be a "sandbox" for our programmers so I want a solution that will allow me to "clone at will" (not just a one time clone) so I can do massive deployments on many servers.

Have any of you done something similar? How did you solve the problem?

-C

Maybe here you'll find what you want.

It looks like virt-clone is what I'm looking for...

I'll read up on it ...who knows...maybe I'll write a how to on here

-C