My migration worked fine. Couple of things. I was using the Debian kernel on Xen..Did not boot using legacy grub on kvm.
I switched to the latest 64 bit kernel and it booted.

I installed removed grub-legacy (after extensive experiments) and installed grub2..ran install-grub and
selected grub for boot loader in profile. It runs fine. Only remaining problem is the ajax console won't connect.

Still experimenting with it. If anyone has a solution..please let me know.

fb

Change your init stuff to start a getty on ttyS0 instead of hvc0.

-Chris

I fixed it..it works btw with the linode kernels w/o adding this but using grub with distro kernel add this to /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"

Your fix may be easier..I will check that too.

Everything works great..I assume my kvm linode with eventually become non-beta w/o any action on my part?

fb

The following worked for me to migrate a newly installed Debian 8 system to KVM using distro-provided kernel:

* Keep using linode kernel.
* Switch to KVM using the button. Make sure "Distro Helper" is enabled, as it takes care of modifying /etc/fstab automatically.
* apt-get install grub-pc linux-image-amd64
* Do not select *any* device like /dev/sda to install GRUB.
* When asked "Continue without installing GRUB?", say Yes.
* nano /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS0"
* update-grub
* Select GRUB2 in Dashboard.
* reboot

That works too. Simpler. I revised my settings.

I did have a problem with Dovecot not starting after reboot (..time backwards error) because of ntp's failure to get time before Dovecot started.
I changed ntp servers and that resolved that issue. I was using the debian default servers and changed to ntp.org servers.

fb

I just want to add to this, while obvious in hindsight... If you're using a custom kernel, you'll have to recompile it for KVM depending on your compile options. mine had XEN-specific options so it wouldn't boot. Just boot with a linode supplied kernel, remove the old kernel and recompile a new one. I also removed all old grub packages and installed grub2 so I could boot with the grub 2 option instead of the legacy one.
I followed: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-refer ... ith-pvgrub (oh and mkinitrd is called mkinitramfs under debian)