On Mon, March 17, 2014 19:35, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 17.03.2014 19:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > >> I know. It usually comes at the least convenient moment. >> >> I do think it's the customers' fault for not keeping up with normal >> maintenance schedules. Most companies write off hardware after 3-4 >> years. > > The support contract with the supplier ended in 2011 ... you know ...
Doesn't surprise me, to be honest... > But OK, I wanted them to "do KVM" anyway. I just have to invest this > evening ... in a way. I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from disk-snapshots. No info if it's possible to take a copy of the memory as well. > I am right before installing Qemu and configuring the network bridge etc > ... the vmdks are already converted. Maybe it doesn't take that long. I don't think it should take very long. :) But, do check that the vmware tools get uninstalled from the guests and replaced by KVM equivalents. -- Joost
