Everyone,
My final solution to the moving a Centos 7 machine to VMWare turned out to be the use of
vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 that has to be executed on a Windows machine. I ran
this product on a kvm guest Windows 10 machine and it worked very well. The transfer had
to be done while the Centos 7 machine was booted. I have used this now to transfer a kvm
guest Centos 7 machine and a physical machine Centos 7 both to VMWare.
There was a problem when I booted both machines that occurred at the beginning of the boot
process before the kernel was accepted. The screen was filed with error messages which
stated repetitively :
"error: can't find command ':'"
I had to enter a <Cr> several times to bypass the error messages and the the boot proceed
normally.
I found :
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/p2v-redhat-error-can-t-find-command/td-p/497444
Apparently the VMWare converter has a bug in it that adds ": " to the beginning of a line
that starts with "#" in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
All I needed to do was to edit grub.cfg and remove the ": " that was present in many of
the lines that had previously been commented.
A reboot was normal.
If any of you find a way to do this task with Linux I would surely like to hear from you,
but if you are looking for a way to make a migration from a physical machine or guest
machine to VMWare this worked well.
Greg Ennis
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