Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

I'd like to know if it's possible to clone a running domU. The LVM image is 30GB. I can't really afford to have the

running one off line that long, so if possible I'd like todo it while
it's running.

dd almost certainly won't give you a usable filesystem in your copy.
Using LVM you should be able to make a snapshot of the filesystem which
should be at least as consistent (integrity wise) as if you'd done an
'xm destroy' on the domain.

A neat way to do that is if you use zfs-backed storage, either directly (using Sun's xVM) or having solaris export the volume over iscsi to linux box. The "clone" process for zfs is two simple commands : "zfs snanpshot" and "zfs clone", which is almost instaneous.

Regards,
Fajar
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