On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:25 PM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote: > > Hi, > > What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7 > machine on VMware instead of EL8? > Probably he has a vmware cluster that is in use already. I myself moved out of it to KVM primarily because of the lousy PCI passthrough ESXi has. Otherwise, it was rather stable. In any case, off-topic to the thread. > Simon > > > Everyone, > > > > My final solution to the moving a Centos 7 machine to VMWare turned out to > > be the use of > > vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 that has to be executed on a Windows > > machine. I ran > > this product on a kvm guest Windows 10 machine and it worked very well. > > The transfer had > > to be done while the Centos 7 machine was booted. I have used this now to > > transfer a kvm > > guest Centos 7 machine and a physical machine Centos 7 both to VMWare. > > > > There was a problem when I booted both machines that occurred at the > > beginning of the boot > > process before the kernel was accepted. The screen was filed with error > > messages which > > stated repetitively : > > > > "error: can't find command ':'" > > > > I had to enter a <Cr> several times to bypass the error messages and the > > the boot proceed > > normally. > > > > I found : > > https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/p2v-redhat-error-can-t-find-command/td-p/497444 > > > > Apparently the VMWare converter has a bug in it that adds ": " to the > > beginning of a line > > that starts with "#" in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > > > All I needed to do was to edit grub.cfg and remove the ": " that was > > present in many of > > the lines that had previously been commented. > > > > A reboot was normal. > > > > If any of you find a way to do this task with Linux I would surely like to > > hear from you, > > but if you are looking for a way to make a migration from a physical > > machine or guest > > machine to VMWare this worked well. > > > > Greg Ennis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos