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
that disk to create an image. The only thing left then would be to fix
up boot_archive and zpool.
Maybe use something like firefly to do that as it is designed for tasks
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
but apparently that never happened for solaris 11. I then looked at
conversion P2V stuff but that led nowhere but to some proprietary
tools I had don't have a license for. Currently I am installing a
distro-const iso into Virtualbox but I suspect that is not going to
produce what I need (a pure clone of my old machine).
It is only a single rpool (file storage is NFSed in from another
box). Any suggestions? zfs send the rpool to the new virtual machine
I made using distro-const? Will that even work being the rpool and
all? is there some super easy dd way that I am missing? This system
has been running for over a decade and is crusty as hell, I doubt
there is any way I could rebuild it from scratch so I would rather
not. I don't have the time to try and get perl and imagemagick
working together again.
Hi.
I remember moving my SXCE/OI installations from physical hardware to
VMware. I don't remember how did I convert production one. Likely,
VMware Converter. But I remember using qemu-img to convert physical
disks to qcow2/vdk images. And yes, after you moved VM to 'new
hardware', you'll have to boot from boot media and regenerate boot archive.
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