[OpenIndiana-discuss] cloning an OI system to VDMK

[Till Wegmüller]

Apart from the Storage space, nothing I am aware of...
Maybe that the Block Size is equivalent to the original disk.

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Greetings
Toasterson

On 07/27/2017 06:19 PM, dkjar at elmira.edu wrote:
> That sounds like a good plan.  Anything I need to worry about with dd?
> 
> Dr. Daniel Kjar
> Associate Professor of Biology
> Elmira College
> 
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> *From: *Till Wegmüller <mailto:toasterson at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:15 PM
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> *Subject: *Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cloning an OI system to VDMK
> 
> 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
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> that disk to create an image. The only thing left then would be to fix
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> up boot_archive and zpool.
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> Maybe use something like firefly to do that as it is designed for tasks
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> 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
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>  >> but apparently that never happened for solaris 11.  I then looked at
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>  >> conversion P2V stuff but that led nowhere but to some proprietary
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>  >> tools I had don't have a license for.  Currently I am installing a
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>  >> distro-const iso into Virtualbox but I suspect that is not going to
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>  >> produce what I need (a pure clone of my old machine).
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>  >>
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>  >> It is only  a single rpool (file storage is NFSed in from another
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>  >> box). Any suggestions?  zfs send the rpool to the new virtual machine
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>  >> I made using distro-const?  Will that even work being the rpool and
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>  >> all?  is there some super easy dd way that I am missing? This system
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>  >> has been running for over a decade and is crusty as hell, I doubt
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>  >> there is any way I could rebuild it from scratch so I would rather
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>  >> not.  I don't have the time to try and get perl and imagemagick
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>  >> working together again.
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>  >>
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>  >
> 
>  > Hi.
> 
>  > I remember moving my SXCE/OI installations from physical hardware to
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>  > VMware. I don't remember how did I convert production one. Likely,
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>  > VMware Converter. But I remember using qemu-img to convert physical
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>  > disks to qcow2/vdk images. And yes, after you moved VM to 'new
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>  > hardware', you'll have to boot from boot media and regenerate boot 
> archive.
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>  >
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>  >
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