That sounds like a good plan. Anything I need to worry about with dd? Dr. Daniel Kjar Associate Professor of Biology Elmira College
Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Till Wegmüller Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cloning an OI system to VDMK 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. --- 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. > > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
