{"id":10167,"date":"2009-12-01T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2009-12-01T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:46:26","slug":"can-you-p2v-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10167","title":{"rendered":"Can You P2V Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eek!&#160; What a scary thought.&#160; I was asked tonight if this was possible.&#160; Not with VMM and not with VMware\u2019s tools AFAIK.&#160; I had no idea.&#160; I did some searching.&#160; Apparently PlateSpin can do it with PowerConvert.&#160; There\u2019s a messy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windley.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/p2v_how_to_make_a_physical_linux_box_into_a_virtual_machine.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a> for cloning Linux machines.&#160; This process will probably get easier when the Linux distros are available with the Hyper-V integration components installed.&#160; But most P2V operations will likely be on older distros so things won\u2019t be easy.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not touching this one with a barge pole \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eek!&#160; What a scary thought.&#160; I was asked tonight if this was possible.&#160; Not with VMM and not with VMware\u2019s tools AFAIK.&#160; I had no idea.&#160; I did some searching.&#160; Apparently PlateSpin can do it with PowerConvert.&#160; There\u2019s a messy solution for cloning Linux machines.&#160; This process will probably get easier when the Linux distros &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can You P2V Linux?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}