On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:25 PM Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7
> machine on VMware instead of EL8?
>
Probably he has a vmware cluster that is in use already. I
myself moved out of it to KVM primarily because of the lousy PCI
passthrough ESXi has. Otherwise, it was rather stable. In any case,
off-topic to the thread.
> Simon
>
> > 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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