VMware Converter Standalone drops acls from files

[tomuxi]

With online Linux conversion, VMware Converter Standalone seems to drop acls that have been set with setfacl.

[POCEH]

Unfortunately you are right - the extended ACLs are not preserved with tar command.

The bug is filed for future release.

[tomuxi · Accepted solution]

Perhaps a workaround for now would be to do manually in the source before conversion:

find / -maxdepth 1 -type d | egrep -v '^/(dev|proc|sys|tmp|run|)$' | getfacl --recursive --absolute-names --skip-base - | gzip > fs.acl.gz

And after conversion in the resulted machine:

zcat fs.acl.gz | setfacl --restore=- && rm fs.acl.gz