Using the Clonezilla method, I was able to clone and restore the KVM to a new VM. It booted fine the first time, so I first did a yum update (it's a CentOS 6.7 VM). After that, it will no longer boot, and there are no errors. It just hangs after the initial BIOS screen. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to try to make this work. Otherwise dd with netcat is my next try but I suspect the exact same thing will happen since I think that's exactly what Clonezilla is doing (making an exact copy of the virtual disk).
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Peter Kelm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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/ >> >> Peter >> >> Am 11.05.2017 um 16:12 schrieb Mark Creamer <[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/184463/23055384-4ad60763> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Mark ------------------------------------------- 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
