How to P2V of SCo Unix 7.1 to ESXi 5.0

[dsood21]

Hi There

We are in the process of migrating ar physical SCO unixware 7.1 server to ESXi 5.0. The sco unixware physical is Compaq Pentium III server. I am not able to read the unix os with VMware cold converter 4. Can anyone help me with the process to accomplish this.

Regards

[AndreTheGiant]

Have a look at those steps:

http://ds45.blogspot.it/2009/07/sco-p2v-in-real-life.html

[Machew]

I've converted a few SCO boxes and my best friend in this situation  has always been the free boot-able tool G4U (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/),  you can take a 1 to 1 copy of the complete environment, applications  and data and save it to an image file some where on your LAN, this in  turn can then be restored to a new VM, at which point you can  reconfigure the machine image to either run with IDE driver (WD) or SCSI  driver (BLC), which ever you feel is suitable. Not having to do a fresh install is very useful!

Once you have an image you can tinker with it to your hearts  content until you have documented and perfected your process, at which  point you can do a change freeze, make a fresh image via G4U and then build the new VM  with the newest copy of the physical machine.

[continuum]

> I am not able to read the unix os with VMware cold converter 4.

Use the older Converter CD - that one that is based on Converter 3.
Or use a Linux LiveCD and create a dd-image.

But with SCO the tricky part is to adjust the drivers - the imaging itself is easy.

If possible install a fresh SCO into a VM and just import the application and the application data - that is by far easier