[OpenIndiana-discuss] cloning an OI system to VDMK

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 07/27/17 06:05 PM, Daniel Kjar wrote:
> My old hardware is dying and I want to move my system to a virtualized 
> environment.  I have been digging for ways to do this but I am not sure 
> if I am starting to get frustrated.  I wanted to do flarcreate but 
> apparently that never happened for solaris 11.  I then looked at 
> conversion P2V stuff but that led nowhere but to some proprietary tools 
> I had don't have a license for.  Currently I am installing a 
> distro-const iso into Virtualbox but I suspect that is not going to 
> produce what I need (a pure clone of my old machine).
> 
> It is only  a single rpool (file storage is NFSed in from another box). 
> Any suggestions?  zfs send the rpool to the new virtual machine I made 
> using distro-const?  Will that even work being the rpool and all?  is 
> there some super easy dd way that I am missing? This system has been 
> running for over a decade and is crusty as hell, I doubt there is any 
> way I could rebuild it from scratch so I would rather not.  I don't have 
> the time to try and get perl and imagemagick working together again.
>

Hi.
I remember moving my SXCE/OI installations from physical hardware to 
VMware. I don't remember how did I convert production one. Likely, 
VMware Converter. But I remember using qemu-img to convert physical 
disks to qcow2/vdk images. And yes, after you moved VM to 'new 
hardware', you'll have to boot from boot media and regenerate boot archive.


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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department