[Spce-user] Vmware converter P2V SPCE

[Joel S. | VOZELIA]

Hi Dave, 

Sorry for the delay... 

Can you post the output of:

-Physical Server-

1) fdisk -l
2) lvdisplay
3) cat /etc/fstab

-VM- (booted from LIVE-CD, example GRML https://grml.org/)

1) /etc/init.d/lvm2 start (or '/etc/init.d/lvm start', not sure 100%)
2) fdisk -l
3) lvdisplay
4) cat /etc/fstab

 
Joel.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Massey" <dave at optionsdsl.ca>
> To: "Joel S. | VOZELIA" <joel at vozelia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2014 4:57:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spce-user] Vmware converter P2V SPCE
> 
> I am trying to convert from a physical machine to a VM.
> I noticed so far that during the conversion the virtual machine grub.cfg gets
> changes from using UUIDs to /dev/sda1.
> I need to boot up some rescue linux disk to have a better look at the VMs
> hard drive layout in /etc/fstab.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 4, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Joel S. | VOZELIA <joel at vozelia.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dave
> > 
> > If I got you correctly, you are trying to create a VM from a physical
> > server? Or are you moving from VM-1 to VM-2?
> > 
> > I am only taking a guess here... Are you sure your hard disks are called
> > the same in the physical server and the newly created VM (/dev/XXX)???
> > Maybe after creating the VM the OS sees them with a different name (sda /
> > vda / hda / etc.) and that change is not reflected in the MBR (grub?) and
> > the /etc/fstab, etc. which will not let the OS boot.
> > 
> > Can you give more details on the situation?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Joel.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> >> From: "Dave Massey" <dave at optionsdsl.ca>
> >> To: spce-user at lists.sipwise.com
> >> Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 10:36:33 PM
> >> Subject: [Spce-user] Vmware converter P2V SPCE
> > 
> >> I have a SPCE install 2.6 Ive been trying to use vmware converter
> >> standalone
> >> to move it temporarily to a virtual machine but it seems to fail booting
> >> despite no errors during the virtual conversion.. Host is ESXI 5.5
> > 
> >> Anyone have any tricks to migrate this? It was a typical SPCE install, no
> >> raid or anything fancy.
> >> Thanks
> > 
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