The process we have been looking at goes something like this:
- Create the new VM machine with required hardware specs, then add a
second SCSI drive.
- Install a base install of CentOS onto the 2nd SCSI drive and boot to
it (you could skip this and use a rescue CD, but having the full
install makes some things much easier)
- While running from the clean CentOS install, rsync all the files
from the old server into the VM at the correct locations on the OTHER
scsi drive
- Update grub and initrd on the rsynced install
- Reboot into the rsynced install
Those are the general procedures. You'll have to experiment to make
sure you've got everything taken care of.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Erick Perez<eaperezh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all, i want to virtualize an existing Centos 5.x machine (intel xeon, 64
> bit OS, Qlogic HBA) into a vmware 3.X VM that will not be connected to the
> SAN (hence no need for the HBA drivers). So i googled a while and found this
> link:
> http://virtualaleph.blogspot.com/2007/05/virtualize-linux-server-with-vmware.html
> However the link is quite old and I wonder if anyone here has done such
> conversion for something like Centos 5.x/Redhat 5.x
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Erick Perez
> Cel +(507) 6675-5083
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