[OpenIndiana-discuss] cloning an OI system to VDMK

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

VMDK is basicly a small metadata wrapper around a raw disk image.
You can use dd to copy one disk of your raid in a file and then use 
quemu-img to convert that file to vmdk (or any other supported format)

Warning: this will also copy empty space on the disk.

The vmdk will be smaller however. And it will take aaaaages to complete.

Maybe take a disk out of the pool and resilver a new one into then use 
that disk to create an image. The only thing left then would be to fix 
up boot_archive and zpool.

Maybe use something like firefly to do that as it is designed for tasks 
like this.


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Greetings
Toasterson

On 07/27/2017 05:41 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> 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.
> 
>