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,
VMware converter. In my environment, I have it root access over SSH, and it did it's thing with minimum fuss. For supported distributions, it's been wonderful.
Am 08.09.2009 um 03:06 schrieb Eugene Vilensky:
VMware converter. In my environment, I have it root access over SSH, and it did it's thing with minimum fuss. For supported distributions, it's been wonderful.
Unfortunately, it seems to be unable to cope with software-RAIDs as boot-drives. (DL320G5 here) Or is there a workaround for that?
For DL380/DL385 it seems to work very nicely.
cheers, Rainer
Sorry for the late response. We got VMWARE converter from our local distributor and the conversion was actually quite fast. the raids were in hardware so no problems at all.
Thanks Eugene, and thanks all.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eugene Vilensky evilensky@gmail.com wrote:
VMware converter. In my environment, I have it root access over SSH, and it did it's thing with minimum fuss. For supported distributions, it's been wonderful. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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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