CentOS - Sep 2009 - Virtualizing an existing Centos 5.x installation

Hi all, i want to virtualize an existing Centos 5.x machine (intel xeon, 64
bit OS, Qlogic HBA) into a vmware 3.X VM that will not be connected to the
SAN (hence no need for the HBA drivers). So i googled a while and found this
link:
http://virtualaleph.blogspot.com/2007/05/virtualize-linux-server-with-vmware.html
However the link is quite old and I wonder if anyone here has done such
conversion for something like Centos 5.x/Redhat 5.x

Thanks,



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VMware converter.  In my environment, I have it root access over SSH,
and it did it's thing with minimum fuss.  For supported distributions,
it's been wonderful.

The process we have been looking at goes something like this:
- Create the new VM machine with required hardware specs, then add a
second SCSI drive.
- Install a base install of CentOS onto the 2nd SCSI drive and boot to
it (you could skip this and use a rescue CD, but having the full
install makes some things much easier)
- While running from the clean CentOS install, rsync all the files
from the old server into the VM at the correct locations on the OTHER
scsi drive
- Update grub and initrd on the rsynced install
- Reboot into the rsynced install

Those are the general procedures.  You'll have to experiment to make
sure you've got everything taken care of.



On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Erick Perez<eaperezh at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all, i want to virtualize an existing Centos 5.x machine (intel xeon, 64
> bit OS, Qlogic HBA) into a vmware 3.X VM that will not be connected to the
> SAN (hence no need for the HBA drivers). So i googled a while and found
this
> link:
>
http://virtualaleph.blogspot.com/2007/05/virtualize-linux-server-with-vmware.html
> However the link is quite old and I wonder if anyone here has done such
> conversion for something like Centos 5.x/Redhat 5.x
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Erick Perez
> Cel +(507) 6675-5083
> ------------------------------------------------------------