[olug] vmware P2V Centos 5.4

[Justin Reiners]

I did get 2 servers to work, moved from production to testing now, just had
to set IP addresses.


On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you boot the virtual environment using an ISO and check
> /var/log/messages or similar log files? Either that or perform a V2P
> migration and do similarly?
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Boot into single user mode and use chkconfig off any extra services....
> > might help.
> >
> > On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Hurley, Rod <RHurley at tenaska.com> wrote:
> >> When you did the p2v, did you remember to uninstall any hardware junk
> > that normally blows up P2V?  Software like Dell OpenManage, HP Insight,
> IBM
> > Director, etc that is designed for hardware support often cause havoc
> with
> > the VM after the P2V process, and usually it's too late to fix it because
> > it won't boot.  I uninstall as much as I can stand prior to the P2V
> process.
> >>
> >> IF this is not the issue, I don't have any other tips for you, per se.
> >>
> >> Rod
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> > Justin Reiners
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:37 PM
> >> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> >> Subject: [olug] vmware P2V Centos 5.4
> >>
> >> I am trying to convert 2 physical 5.4 boxes to run on our VMWare
> platform
> > and I am having a hell of a time, anyone have any tricks? it dies when it
> >  is booting up saying something tried to kill init. any ideas?
> >>
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