Can someone from VMware please create a video tutorial on Linux P2V ?

[continuum]

Can someone from VMware please create a video tutorial on Linux P2V ?

I have the impression that such a tutorial is needed here

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[Gabriel_Chapman]

that would be great if converter didn't totally break LVM. It's cold clone or nothing really (at least in my experience)

[continuum]

Hi Gabriel

do you have links to good howtos for doing it the hard way ?




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[AndreTheGiant]

For Converter for Linux there is this link:

http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-p2v-linux-into-vmware-esx-server/

For the hard way have a look at:

http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/08/p2v_how_to_make_a_physical_linux_box_into_a_virtual_machine....

IMHO, I use another way:

- create clean VM with VMware Tools installed with the same distro version.

- keep the new /boot, /etc/fstab (I prefer change partition table on Linux VM to have one partition -> one vmdk), /etc/udev, /etc/vmware-tools

- give a temporally IP

- use tar to take and restore the system part (during the restore use --numeric-owner to keep original UID and GID)

- then use rsync to copy the data/application part

- test the VM

- do the last rsync and finaly switch

Andre