In our migrations we uninstalled the VMWare guest tools first and also installed the Windows virtio block and net drivers before dd’ing the disk over to SmartOS KVM.
> Am 12.05.2017 um 15:36 schrieb Sriram Narayanan <[email protected]>: > > Did you also install the vmware guest tools after the migration? > > We're there any kvm guest tools installed earlier? > > You may want to ensure that the right version of the tools are in place and > that stale tools are removed after the migration. > > I'd also reboot the VMs once and then verify the guest tools status via > vcentre. You may also want to migrate the VMs between VMWare hosts to ensure > that you don't care any migration issues in the future due to vmdk disk > structure issues, etc. I've no clue if this is still an issue, but I'd faced > issues with linked clones when the original vm was created using dd. > > Ram > > On Friday, May 12, 2017, Peter Kelm <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Mark, > > We folloed Mark Slatem’s blog post to accomplish the migration - truly simple: > > - Boot both your VSphere/ESXi VM and the KVM machine on SmartOS using a Linux > "rescue CD" (we used sysresccd). > - On the target machine: Launch netcat so that it listens on port 9000 and > pipe its output into dd (to the target disk). > - On the source machine: dd the real VSphere VM disk and pipe to netcat (port > and IP address as above). > > http://blog.smartcore.net.au/smartos-kvm-screencast-part-2/ > <http://blog.smartcore.net.au/smartos-kvm-screencast-part-2/> > > Peter > >> Am 11.05.2017 um 16:12 schrieb Mark Creamer <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>: >> >> I would like to move my few remaining KVM servers to my legacy VMware server >> so the SmartOS systems are all running native OS zones. Has anyone >> successfully used VMware Converter for this task? Or is there a better way >> other than rebuilding from scratch and moving the apps and data over? >> >> -- >> Mark > > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25252853-72390e47> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
