[Spce-user] Vmware converter P2V SPCE

[Dave Massey]

No problem after lots of trial and error and some google help I managed to come up with a way to get it to work.

Transfer from physical machine to VM using vmware converter and selecting "do not reconfigure OS"
Boot the newly created VM with a debian ISO and select reinstall grub boot loader to /dev/sda
go to shell and mount /dev/sda1 as root.
run blkid and note the new block IDs for the drive partitions.
Edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg with the new IDs.

Boot VM.

Not sure if this is the best way? but it worked for me.. SPCE 2.6.



On Oct 6, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Joel S. | VOZELIA <joel at vozelia.com> wrote:

> 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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