Re: Converting PV to HVM - boot methods

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> This all works fine, but I'm interested in others' alternatives
>>> suggestions.
>> You wrote of not having space at the beginning of the disk.  Why not
>> just fix that?  Move everything over by enough space to add your
>> partitioning?  Or, [...]?
> Yes, those were my first ideas, but with my method the downtime on
> these production machines is literally the time it takes to reboot.

Ah!  I don't recall seeing anything indicating that downtime was a
significant consideration.

Yes, that's a fair answer to my "Why not ...?".

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