[CentOS] Physical-to-Virtual (VMware) & SELinux

Sat Jun 19 13:01:24 UTC 2010
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2010/6/19 Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com>:
> Hello guys,
>
> I have a couple of servers that I'm about to virtualize to our VMware Vsphere
> ecosystem.  For Linux servers I read that one needs to use the stand-alone
> converter (which is a live-cd that you boot from it and then you point it to
> your destination ESX).
>
> I would like to know from folks that have already done so...what was your
> experience like? Did everything went smooth? Any caveats?  I'm worried about
> the filesystem extended attributes (SELinux). Will it survive the migration? Or
> will I need to relabel the whole filesystem again?

Usually it works fine, just need to install vmware tools after
conversion. Also, you cannot resize linux disk(s) during conversion.

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Eero