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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > 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%[email protected]> > . > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
