Useful Xen Utilities

13 Feb 2008
Today on freshmeat I noticed 2 useful utilities for anyone running Xen Servers. 

The first is called Virt-top it is a easier to read top like tool than xm top that shows all virtual machines memory and CPU usage in a nice display including totals etc:



The other - Virt-P2V - it's a CD Image that you can boot a physical machine with that will then convert it to a virtual machine for you.  It will scp the drive image to a destination of your choice and create a config file to boot it after asking you some questions.  I intend to use this to move a VMWare virtual machine to Xen soon, will post here and see how it goes.

Both of these come from a Red Hat employee, with some luck we'll see these included in Red Hat Linux soon.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 9:53 PM

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