Migrating from WHS to Amahi via VM

[nickdanger3d]

I can't tell if this idea is stupid-crazy or crazy-like-a-fox.

I want to migrate from WHSv1 to Amahi piecemeal. The impetus for this is that I want to add a 3TB drive in my MediaSmart Server ex485 (which also has 2 1TB and 1 2TB drive.) Right now on my desktop I'm setting up a VM of 32-bit amahi express which I will later move to run from my WHS once I get the 3TB drive. My plan would be to start using the VM with the 3TB drive and migrate a disk at a time to be running in Amahi, and then (if possible) adding the vm disk to the data to be duplicated onto another disk, then make that duplicated disk the boot volume. Is there some fatal flaw I'm missing? My main concerns are that my server is headless, so I'll have to figure out a way to make it boot from the right volume.

[ciscoh]

I think you need to start from the end and work backwards.

When this project is done, how do you see things setup?

Amahi in a VM?

Amahi in a VM on WHS?

[nickdanger3d]

My endgame is to replace WHS with amahi. I'd want to move amahi from the VM onto a physical HD, ideally running from one of the pooled drives.

[ciscoh]

how much data do you have, without duplication?

[nickdanger3d]

With duplication (but only on a couple hundred gigs) i have 4TB. (1TB system drive, 1TB data drive, 2TB data drive. The 3TB drive will be added empty) I should be able to move one drive over at a time and then add them to the pool as I go.

[ciscoh]

what are you going to use for virtualization?

[nickdanger3d]

I made a VM in VirtualBox last night. But I'm not married to it or anything.

[ciscoh]

i think you can just move the files to your desktop using the 3TB drive........


format and install amahi on the server, move the data back and add the 3TB drive?

or if you give the amahi VM direct access to the 3TB drive and transfer the datat to it, you can just plug it in and do an --fsck and let it build the shares

[nickdanger3d]

Followup:

Well, what I want to do is basically not possible. No (free) VM software supports 3TB disks, making this thread moot.

What I've done next is tried to USB install Amahi but it just won't boot. So, I installed Ubuntu to my 3TB disk booting from the same USB flash drive and that worked with no problems. In Ubuntu, I tried using unetbootin to change the flash drive to boot amahi. No dice, it hangs on the boot menu. I tried using the netinst and using a minimal boot image too. I'm going to make a separate thread for this issue since its completely different topic.

[bigfoot65]

If you want to install Amahi and Fedora 14 from USB drive, recommend you follow the wiki guidance. This is an unsupported install method, but I can say from experience that it works.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora_14_usb_install