[olug] VMware cold clone CD.

Dan Linder dan at linder.org
Thu Oct 11 13:39:04 UTC 2012


If you haven't found the P2V tool, your next step might be to use a disk
cloning utility to migrate to the virtual system.  You'll have more work
fixing the drivers, but hopefully that won't be a major problem.  (But then
if time is an issue, you might not be able to do this..)

Dan

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>wrote:

> oops, sorry typo. I am looking for a copy of the old cold clone disk that
> can p2v older linux systems. I was hoping someone might have the iso. Cant
> grab it due to the fact to vmware EOL the tool and removed it from their
> website. I have tried to p2v this system using multiple tutorials with no
> success. I have esxi, vcenter, standard licenses, access to redhat 7.3
> install disks. I was just hoping to click and go as time is an issue for
> me.
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> > Get a copy of what?
> >  - ESXi?
> >  - RedHat 7.3? (What flavor: i386 or x86_64?)
> >  - A Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) tool?
> >
> > If a P2V solution won't work, you might have to start digging into the
> live
> > system and listing what files are "new" when compared to the base RH7.3
> > install. Once you know all the non-OS files, you can start trying to copy
> > them to a new RedHat system that is supportable.  It's not a very clean
> way
> > to do it, but if it's your only choice...
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I am a paying customer for vcenter. I am in dire need of the I so to
> cold
> > > convert an old red hat 7.3 PC  to esxi. I just found out it is not
> > > supported any longer. Does anyone have any idea where to get a copy? I
> > have
> > > tried multiple ways to convert with no good luck. The machine is 10
> years
> > > old running an inventory system that nobody has re install disks for
> and
> > > the company went under.
> > >
> > > I'm going crazy! :) its running on a 2.2ghz celery  2gb disk 512 megs
> > ram.
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