vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition

[Definima]

Hi there,

I'm looking to migrate a physical machine to my ESXi cluster with vCenter Converter but actually I got this following error :

There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Mount the '/boot' directory on the source machine.

Is it possible to ignore this message ? Actually this server is in production and I don't have any space left on my hard drive to create another partition.

I would like to know if we can convert a physical machine to a VM without a dedicated /boot partition.

Note: I got a /boot folder but mounted on my /

If someone got any advice about this will be helpfull

[ivivanov · Accepted solution]

Yes, in theory you can. /boot directory under / is OK, however this error message is a bit misleading - I would say that Converter could not recognize your *disks* and thus no mounted partitions, so it could not find /boot neither as a separate partition nor as a directory under /. Are you using some software RAID (md) on your source server?

[Definima]

Thanks for your answer.

Yea indeed, Im using mdam for my raid software, no chance to get any support with mdam partition ? All my servers are using it.

[ivivanov]

Unfortunately Converter cannot handle such configurations 😞

[Definima]

Too bad

Thanks anyway