[ale] virtualize a FC6 box to a vmware image

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:44 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Programs have to be ?aware of SELinux? rather than vice-versa?
> 

Sort of. SELinux adds a small pile of extended attributes to each
file/directory. Unless the app that is manipulating them at the low
level "knows" SELinux, then those attributes will not get transferred.

tar doesn't speak SELinux so star was written (note: RedHat tar may have
the SELinux extensions backported - need to check...)

rsync does not know SELinux. So to do a _full_ copy, it will be needed
to script in the final comparison of attributes and merge them to the
off-site copy. Basically, the rsync will use the SELinux on the target
machine. So if the source machine has settings that are different from
the drop location on the target, they will be lost.

Grr.....


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> From:ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Jerry Yu
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:26 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] virtualize a FC6 box to a vmware image
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> this is pretty close to my own full backup+recovery steps. should I
> assume rsync is not aware of SELinux attributes?
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> On 5/2/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> 
> Jerry Yu wrote:
> > I have a FC6 box running wordpress. It became desirable to convert
> it to 
> > a vmware instance.  'vmware converter' and it asked me for domain
> \user
> > to convert a remote physical server?!   Any vmware (quick) way w/o
> > doing  full backup & restore I usually do?
> 
> I don't think the vmware converter supports linux. Take a look at
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=82173&tstart=0.
> They recommend something like
> 
> - Enable ssh access in the source system
> - Create a vm for the target system
> - Boot the vm with a linux live-cd (System Rescue CD or RIP are light
> ones)
> - Setup the network in the vm as usual 
> - mount the virtual hd destination partition. Eg.
> mount /dev/hda /mnt/dest
> - rsync -av --numeric-ids --exclude=/dev,/proc,/sys
> root at ip-source:/dev/hd(source-partition)/ /mnt/dest/
> - mkdir /mnt/dest/{dev,proc,sys} 
> - adjust the bootloader and fstab of the virtual system to reflect the
> new root
> - umount /mnt/dest
> - reboot vm
> 
> -Brian
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