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Chris On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu>wrote: > In my experience, VMware Converter doesn't work on Linux physical machines. > > What I have used in the past is a VMware "Cold Clone" boot disk that I > could boot the physical server from and do a migration offline. VMware > doesn't distribute that tool any more, but if you'll email me off-list, I > might be able to tell you where you can get that ISO file. > > I've also used the instructions in the following article to "Virtualize a > Server with Minimal Downtime". Those instructions are a little involved, > but the actual server downtime is minimal. > > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > >> Don't cha just love those howto web sites that give you the "everything >> always works first time" instructions. grrrrrr. >> >> So I am trying out VMware vCenter Converter to move a 32bit version of >> CentOS 6.4 from a physical server to a virtual instance. The virtual host >> is brand new with no other guests. >> >> Yes, I am running vCenter Converter on a Windows 7 Pro desktop. >> >> Everything linked up. Users and passwords were accepted. Went through >> all the file transfer stuff. >> >> "Conversion status >> >> Type: Convert physical machine to virtual machine >> >> Created: <date, time and user> >> Status: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: '* got >> kernel major revision as ERROR: >> kernel version has to be in the format 2.6.*, version >> 2.6.23-358.el6.i686 is not supported (return code 1)' >> >> Started: <date, time> >> Failed: <date, time> >> Running time: 42 Minutes (Douglas Adams would be proud) >> Completed: 98%" >> >> >> Huh??? >> >> Howard >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> >> >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
