CentOS - Jun 2010 - Physical-to-Virtual (VMware) & SELinux

Hello guys,

I have a couple of servers that I'm about to virtualize to our VMware
Vsphere
ecosystem.  For Linux servers I read that one needs to use the stand-alone 
converter (which is a live-cd that you boot from it and then you point it to 
your destination ESX).

I would like to know from folks that have already done so...what was your 
experience like? Did everything went smooth? Any caveats?  I'm worried about
the filesystem extended attributes (SELinux). Will it survive the migration? Or 
will I need to relabel the whole filesystem again? 

Thanks,
Jorge

2010/6/19 Jorge F?bregas <jorge.fabregas at
gmail.com>:
> Hello guys,
>
> I have a couple of servers that I'm about to virtualize to our VMware
Vsphere
> ecosystem. ?For Linux servers I read that one needs to use the stand-alone
> converter (which is a live-cd that you boot from it and then you point it
to
> your destination ESX).
>
> I would like to know from folks that have already done so...what was your
> experience like? Did everything went smooth? Any caveats? ?I'm worried
about
> the filesystem extended attributes (SELinux). Will it survive the
migration? Or
> will I need to relabel the whole filesystem again?
Usually it works fine, just need to install vmware tools after
conversion. Also, you cannot resize linux disk(s) during conversion.

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Eero