I have a physical server which is open source SCO release 5 and trying to convert to vm esxi 6.1 .
Bad part is I don't have credentials to login to that physical server.
Is there any way to take the harddisk out and recover the data and convert it to vm machine. ?
Will it work. or could I please know any other better ideas and software for the conversion ?
> Is there any way to take the harddisk out and recover the data and convert it to vm machine. ?
Yes - that is possible. You create a dd-image of the full disk and then use that image as a flat.vmdk. Only thing to do next is to create a descriptorfile manually.
But the VM will not boot - without root access you will not be able to adjust the driver-configuration.
VMware-Converter is no help for this task - nor am I aware of any other P2V tool that can handle SCO-operating systems.
Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
I am just new to this Linux/unix world. and one of our new client has this old legacy sco open source server. so just trying to convert it.
I am fine with the part creating a dd image of the full disk.
What do you mean by creating a descriptor file manually ? how does it work ?