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Subject:    Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 host -> VMware host
From:       Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-03-22 19:51:21
Message-ID: CAHEKYV7d4+ijcyKpqXQOSNnc4TL51KXyc1A4jujTnw3nU6BaKg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:25 PM Simon Matter <simon.matter@invoca.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What I'm wondering here, what's the benefit of running the CentOS 7
> machine on VMware instead of EL8?
> 
      Probably he has a vmware cluster that is in use already. I
myself moved out of it to KVM primarily because of the lousy PCI
passthrough ESXi has. Otherwise, it was rather stable. In any case,
off-topic to the thread.

> Simon
> 
> > 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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