Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host

2021-03-22 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Hi, What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7 machine on VMware instead of EL8? Simon --- Simon, It was not a pleasant decision for sure. The initial commitment of RedHat/IBM for the End of Life of C8

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host

2021-03-22 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:25 PM Simon Matter wrote: > > Hi, > > What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7 > machine on VMware instead of EL8? > Probably he has a vmware cluster that is in use already. I myself moved out of it to KVM primarily because of the lousy

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host

2021-03-22 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7 machine on VMware instead of EL8? Simon > Everyone, > > My final solution to the moving a Centos 7 machine to VMWare turned out to > be the use of > vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 that has to be executed on a Windows

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host

2021-03-22 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, My final solution to the moving a Centos 7 machine to VMWare turned out to be the use of vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 that has to be executed on a Windows machine. I ran this product on a kvm guest Windows 10 machine and it worked very well. The transfer had to be done

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host

2021-03-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, -- Greg Ennis I am trying to move some Centos 7 guests off of a Centos 8 host to a VMware host machine. qemu-img is a great tool in kvm to convert the files from *.qcow2 to *.vmdk very easily with the command : qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk *.qcow2 *.vmdk I have been able to