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List:       centos
Subject:    Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host
From:       "Gregory P. Ennis" <PoMec () PoMec ! Net>
Date:       2021-03-22 19:02:52
Message-ID: cf2b447bdf17ff9e52f52f1326496c8497e32928.camel () PoMec ! Net
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Everyone,

My final solution to the moving a Centos 7 machine to VMWare turned out to be the use \
of vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 that has to be executed on a Windows machine. \
I ran this product on a kvm guest Windows 10 machine and it worked very well.  The \
transfer had to be done while the Centos 7 machine was booted.  I have used this now \
to transfer a kvm guest Centos 7 machine and a physical machine Centos 7 both to \
VMWare.

There was a problem when I booted both machines that occurred at the beginning of the \
boot process before the kernel was accepted.  The screen was filed with error \
messages which stated repetitively :

"error: can't find command ':'"

I had to enter a <Cr> several times to bypass the error messages and the the boot \
proceed normally. 

I found :
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/p2v-redhat-error-can-t-find-command/td-p/497444


Apparently the VMWare converter has a bug in it that adds ": " to the beginning of a \
line that starts with "#" in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

All I needed to do was to edit grub.cfg and  remove the ": " that was present in many \
of the lines that had previously been commented.  

A reboot was normal.

If any of you find a way to do this task with Linux I would surely like to hear from \
you, but if you are looking for a way to make a migration from a physical machine or \
guest machine to VMWare this worked well.  

Greg Ennis






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