> On 14 Jan 2025, at 11:26, Curtis Maurand <curtis@???> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I've been running a KVM host machine on an old AMD FX(tm)-8320 8 core processor with 32 GB of RAM on a SATA SSD and a xfs filesystem. It's running Daedalus and it's running fine and has been since Devuan Beowulf. The motherboard is either Gigabyte or MSI. The hardware is getting long in the tooth.
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> I have ordered a supermicro motherboard and an epyc 16 core 32 thread processor, 64 GB of RAM and a 2TB NVME drive. There are also spinning drives in this machine.
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> The current plan is to dd the SATA drive to the NVME drive.

I would suggest booting clonezilla on a usb stick to do the moving. It can handle rewriting partition tables if needed.

> What's the chance of this thing booting without re-installing Daedalus? It's not the end of the world if I have to install a fresh copy and import the virtual machines. I'm curious if things are plug and play enough to be successful on the first try. This is a project that will happen in the next few weeks to a month. AMD microcode is installed on all the machines including the kvm's.

Is this old computer running BIOS or UEFI? If it’s UEFI you would need to boot some sort of live environment on a USB stick to reinstall grub. Something like https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ would do it.

Tom