Hi, What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7 machine on VMware instead of EL8? 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 >