The process we have been looking at goes something like this: - Create the new VM machine with required hardware specs, then add a second SCSI drive. - Install a base install of CentOS onto the 2nd SCSI drive and boot to it (you could skip this and use a rescue CD, but having the full install makes some things much easier) - While running from the clean CentOS install, rsync all the files from the old server into the VM at the correct locations on the OTHER scsi drive - Update grub and initrd on the rsynced install - Reboot into the rsynced install
Those are the general procedures. You'll have to experiment to make sure you've got everything taken care of.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Erick Perezeaperezh@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, i want to virtualize an existing Centos 5.x machine (intel xeon, 64 bit OS, Qlogic HBA) into a vmware 3.X VM that will not be connected to the SAN (hence no need for the HBA drivers). So i googled a while and found this link: http://virtualaleph.blogspot.com/2007/05/virtualize-linux-server-with-vmware... However the link is quite old and I wonder if anyone here has done such conversion for something like Centos 5.x/Redhat 5.x
Thanks,
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