Hallo !
Unter Linux ist das eigentlich unkomplizierter als unter Windows.
gemäss
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread. ... 24&start=5 :
I do "manual Linux p2v" the following way:
1) Create a VM and install _nothing_
2) Boot the VM into Knoppix/grml or another live distro
3) create the same partition layout as it is on the source machine
4) format the partitions and mount them under /mnt/vm/partionA,B,C (so partition structure under /mnt/vm is the same as on the source system
5) set ip adress, start ssh, set root password
6) shutdown most of the services (especially databases...) on source machine to make sure, you won`t sync files which change during sync.
7) for every partition(A,B,C..) on the source-machine: rsync -av --one-file-system --numeric-ids -e ssh /partitionA,B,C... desthost:/mnt/vm/partitionA,B,C....
the --numeric-ids is important, otherwise you will run into trouble because uid`s change during rsync - e.g. user postfix has a different uid in knoppix than on the real host
chroot into /mnt/vm
9) re-Install bootloader - e.g. start "grub-install"
10) Turn off the source and boot into the new VM.
11) re-install network-card
I have successfully transformed an oracle-test-server into a VM with this.
Grüsse
Roland
